Re: [talk-au] Suburbs: Nodes, Areas, or both?

2021-11-06 Thread Andrew Davidson
On 6/11/21 20:30, Simon Poole wrote: Yes, Gruyère is a cheese, it's named after the town of Gruyères see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruy%C3%A8res, very nice place BTW. That's why I was wondering :-), but I suppose the dairy industry explains it. I think Wikipedia is wrong on this one.

Re: [talk-au] Suburbs: Nodes, Areas, or both?

2021-11-06 Thread Simon Poole
Am 06.11.2021 um 10:22 schrieb fors...@ozonline.com.au: Quoting Simon Poole : PS: wondering why Gruyere has that name. Good question. The town is named for a variety of cheese, as the area's history is in the dairy industry. Cahillton Post Office first opened on 20 August 1892. It was

Re: [talk-au] Suburbs: Nodes, Areas, or both?

2021-11-06 Thread forster
Quoting Simon Poole : PS: wondering why Gruyere has that name. Good question. The town is named for a variety of cheese, as the area's history is in the dairy industry. Cahillton Post Office first opened on 20 August 1892. It was renamed Gruyere in 1950 and closed in 1960 Wikipedia Tony

Re: [talk-au] Suburbs: Nodes, Areas, or both?

2021-11-06 Thread Simon Poole
This is a somewhat unsolved issue in OSM modelling, as both area (extent) and node (assuming it is not simply the centroid of the area) convey geometric information that the other cannot. IMHO best would be to have a similar concept as we do for administrative areas that works for "places" in