Re: [Tagging] Non-geometrical ways in boundary relations

2017-01-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Colin Smale wrote: > Tom, I think we need to have consensus about what we mean by admin centre. > +1 In my area, a local mapper also had the idea of adding the town hall building into the boundary relation. I did not revert this even

Re: [Tagging] Non-geometrical ways in boundary relations

2017-01-26 Thread joost schouppe
Isn't the admin_centre just an imaginary point? They tend to be in a logical place, but that might as well be the church or the geographical center (at least in current mapping in Belgium). Also, often it isn't actually "administrative", because we mapped the "Deelgemeenten" (part-community?)

Re: [Tagging] Non-geometrical ways in boundary relations

2017-01-26 Thread Dave F
It looks like you're attempting to create a problem to find a solution. admin_centre added to a town/villages place node is sufficient as local authorities often use multiple buildings. DaveF. On 26/01/2017 11:46, Tom Pfeifer wrote: There is no logical reason why this townhall should not

Re: [Tagging] Non-geometrical ways in boundary relations

2017-01-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Colin, there is a separate discussion on the wiki page about multiple admin centres, as you said below. It is a valid point, but IMHO a separate issue from technically tagging the admin_centre role on a way. On 26.01.2017 13:02, Colin Smale wrote: Tom, I think we need to have consensus about

Re: [Tagging] Non-geometrical ways in boundary relations

2017-01-26 Thread Colin Smale
Tom, I think we need to have consensus about what we mean by admin centre. The traditional "town hall" is frequently no longer the central office location where the administrative and/or customer-facing staff are located, and indeedn, these functions may be distributed over multiple locations. How

[Tagging] Non-geometrical ways in boundary relations

2017-01-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Boundary relations [1] can have members that are the boundary itself, thus the geometrical part of this boundary, as well as further details, in particular an admin_centre and a label, which are both extremely well accepted, and (disputed) a subarea. The valid geometrical members are 'outer'