[OSM-talk] Nominatim & US places

[Phil! Gold]

* Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> [2011-01-03 22:19 -0500]:
> Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> writes:
> > this is why i suggested adding a "centroid" tag to the boundary relations
> > as a way to convey the place that is by convention considered the
> > "center" of town.
> 
> The word centroid seems best avoided.  It has a well established
> geometrical meaning and that isn't what we mean.   admin_centre seems
> fine for boundaries with admin_level tags.  Or just traditional_center
> for any boundary relation.

The boundary relation[0] has roles for both admin_centre and label, though
I don't know how many renderers are using them currently.  For some
reason, a lot of places (including the US) seem to have standardized on
using multipolygons instead of boundary relations for administrative
boundaries.  I'm still not sure why, since the boundary relation seems to
me to be a better fit for the data.

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