Without knowing the area, I can only speculate that "Tri-Cities" is a locally common name for the entire metro, but assuming it is, I like the way it looks on Mapnik, so it seems like a case of tagging for the renderer. How about "place=metro"?
More could be done with metro areas. For example, OSM Mapnik renders the Saint Paul label at a 'higher' level than Minneapolis. Is there some way to identify Minneapolis as the largest city of the metro area and Saint Paul as the Capitol of the State of Minnesota? I don't see anything in the Map Features tags that would allow this. Locally, the entire metro area is frequently known as "The Twin Cities", and together Minneapolis and Saint Paul are a primate city. I don't know of a way to represent (data-wise) the metro areas as one single place. The result is, I'm now looking at a map with labels for Trenton, Wilmington, Newark, Huntington NY, and Stamford CT but not New York City and Philadelphia. A place=metro tag and relations would allow that - if the renderer so chose. Matt -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:07 PM To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools; OpenStreetMap talk-us list Subject: [Talk-us] place=city name=Tri-Cities http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/876536239 There's no city named Tri-Cities; this is the name of the metropolitan area that comprises Pasco, Kennewick, and Richland. I assume there's no defensible reason to keep it tagged as such, but what should be done about it? _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
