10 Sep 2019, 12:06 by p...@trigpoint.me.uk:

> On Monday, 9 September 2019, marc marc wrote:
>
>> Le 09.09.19 à 16:18, Mateusz Konieczny a écrit :
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 9 Sep 2019, 15:14 by pella.s...@gmail.com:
>> > 
>> >     Imho:    the real problem, why we have multiple objects for
>> >     "name:*"   tags? ( admin_centre, label, relation, ... )
>> > 
>> > Label is an  attempt to manually
>> > specify optimal place for placement of a label.
>>
>> the label doesn't need any tag
>> exept that some of them duplicate a country with a node place=country
>>
>
> The label node is also used for navigation and is used to indicate the city 
> centre.
>
> If I tell OSMand I want to go to Liverpool today, I don't expect it to direct 
> me to a residential street at the geographical centre.
>
I thought that this is meaning of 
admin_centre

Note that for example for a seaside town
in most (not all) map styles optimal
label placement is on the sea, not
in the city center.

And directing driver to closest road to
such label would not help.
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