As so often happens in OSM, a small mystery turns into a big question, so here's mine for the week:
If you don't want the explanation, just skip down to the part where it says "THE QUESTION". I live in a place called Silver Spring, Maryland. It's not prominently displayed on the map: http://osm.org/go/ZZcfj5yN- Yet Takoma Park, which is much smaller, does. It turns out the reason is that the node for this town is: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=437409 And has the tag hamlet. Silver Spring is not a hamlet. It has about 80,000 people living in it according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spring,_Maryland My initial thought was "Well we should change the point", but then I discovered this relation: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/133501 Which seems better (it still says that SS is a locality, which is essentially the same as a hamlet/village, but it at least has the administrative boundaries). THE QUESTION Do I fix the node? Do I copy the tags from the node into this relation and then fix the relation? Why was the node the thing that came up in nominatim searches, and not the relation? If I remove this node, will bad things happen? - Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
