Normally places are mapped with both a boundary and node. A node is certainly needed for navigation and should be somewhere sensible, normally the centre is where someone who puts the placename into a satnav would expect to end up, rather than a housing estate in the geographical centre.
Phil (trigpoint) On Thu Feb 9 22:30:03 2017 GMT, Adam Snape wrote: > Hello, > > Apologies for asking two questions in quick succession. > > It has occurred to me that the traditional/historic UK counties aren't > mapped in OSM and I wondered if it would be acceptable to add relations > for these with the boundary=historic tag. > > I know that we have Historical OSM for long vanished historical features, > and I would have no desire to see osm filled with antiquities,. but I think > that the traditional counties are still relevant to people. People still > identify with and talk of themselves as being from "Yorkshire". People > might well wish to search a map for "Sussex" etc. > > We have good sources for the pre-1974 county boundaries in the form of out > of copyright OS maps. The boundaries almost entirely follow current > administrative boundaries, so wouldn't result in lots of extra clutter on > the map. > > Obviously it would be a big task and not one I'm volunteering to do in its > entirety (if I get round to it at all), but does anybody find the > principle of adding of traditional counties objectionable? > > Kind regards, > > Adam > -- Sent from my Jolla _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
