Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 28/04/2013 09:49, Nick Whitelegg wrote: don't know Leeds well enough to know what might be thought of as the centre. Leeds Town Hall would the most suitable. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 10:08 +0100, Malcolm Herring wrote: On 28/04/2013 09:49, Nick Whitelegg wrote: don't know Leeds well enough to know what might be thought of as the centre. Leeds Town Hall would the most suitable. Both already exist, Leeds is here

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Thread David Earl
On 28/04/2013 09:49, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Hi, I've noticed (through doing nominatim searches) that a small number of UK cities (i.e. Manchester and Leeds) do not appear to have a place=city node, only an administrative boundary. Is this deliberate? I've tried other large UK cities and all of

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Philip Barnes wrote: Leeds, however it is in the middle of a pedestrianised area, so makes routing results at best unhelpful as it directs you to a dead end side street. Would be better on a main road from which the central car parks are accessible. http://osrm.at/33S Agreed that routing

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Thread Dave F.
On 28/04/2013 10:42, Philip Barnes wrote: Leeds, however it is in the middle of a pedestrianised area, so makes routing results at best unhelpful as it directs you to a dead end side street. Would be better on a main road from which the central car parks are accessible. Philip, Richard, David

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Thread David Earl
On 28/04/2013 13:57, Dave F. wrote: General point: Please don't attach place tags onto other way/polygon objects. They often get deleted when the ways are unpicked then re-added. Indeed. And I would say don't try to use nodes or ways for multiple purposes at all. So putting a node at the

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Thread Andrew
David Earl david@... writes: In general, it shouldn't be necessary to have a node and an area which represent the same thing. In this case the nodes and areas do not represent the same thing. The areas are the local government districts called Leeds and Manchester but the nodes are the

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Thread David Earl
On 28/04/2013 15:21, Andrew wrote: David Earl david@... writes: In general, it shouldn't be necessary to have a node and an area which represent the same thing. In this case the nodes and areas do not represent the same thing. The areas are the local government districts called Leeds and

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds Philip Barnes wrote: Leeds, however it is in the middle of a pedestrianised area, so makes routing results at best unhelpful as it directs you to a dead end side street. Would be better on a main road from which the central car parks