I suggest to place the node in the town/city proper, which is not the geographical center and not always where the city or town hall is. The city/town proper is basically where the town plaza or poblacion area is. Usually, it's where the church or public market is.
For example, the Las Pinas city hall is here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.4496929645538&mlon=120.982496738434&zoom=14 But I placed the Las Pinas place=city node in the poblacion area, where the plaza and the main church (home of the famous Bamboo Organ) is: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.4809997081757&mlon=120.981595516205&zoom=14 On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Jim Morgan <j...@datalude.com> wrote: > Ed Garcia wrote, On Tuesday, 06 April, 2010 10:05 PM: > > Glad you agree guys! Surprised to see so many +1s in barely an hour > > from posting. Okay then, I'll start with San Antonio in Zambales. That > > town node is currently so far away from town proper ... it is currently > > located on the mountains. > > Seems like a lot of these town / village / city markers are way off the > mark to begin with. I guess they were imported en masse from an imprecise > source. They usually seem to be 1 or 2 km off the mark. Usually when I find > them, I'll drag them closer to a known settlement -- sort of plonk it in the > middle of the most obvious mass of houses on a satellite view, or near the > most obvious confluence of roads. Then when someone with more local > knowledge finds it, they drag it closer to the City Hall ... and when the > City Hall is actually on the map, then it's truly accurate. > > This process of gradually getting more and more precise seems to be what > OSM is all about really. > > Jim > > -- > datalude: information security > e: j...@datalude.com > Philippines: +63 2 403 1311 / mob: +63 920 912 5830 > Hong Kong: +852 6840 6693 > w: http://www.datalude.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com
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