On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Pierre-Alain Dorange <pdora...@mac.com> wrote: > boundary=town is not documented (and not used) and must not been used > (IMHO), because admin_level=8 is widespread. > > According to taginfo.openstreetmap.de : > > admin_level=8 > 96 502 relations > 290 837 ways > 13 665 nodes (!?) > boundary=village 30 > boundary=city_limit 53 > boundary=hamlet 37 > boundary=town 0
Actually boundary=town is 4814 :) > i prefer far more multiples ways linked into a relation than a single > way, because with relation we just have a build one way for frontier > between 2 area (2 town for example) and the way can be linked into the 2 > relations (one relation per town) to define the boundary. Using only one > way for boundary leeds to draw mutlple time boundary with same nodes ? Ah, that's very interesting - I didn't think of that. Australian towns tend to be very far apart, so the boundary of two *towns* rarely meet. (Other administrative boundaries, "shires", do...) > In this model (boundary relation) the node can be used alone, or as the > role admin_centre of the relation. > I think it's a powerful model and it works fine, IMHO. Cool. So preferred tagging is: 1) Node in centre of town with place=town 2) One or more boundary ways with boundary=administrative, admin_level=8 3) Relation linking the two. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
