On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Toby Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> I find this annoying as well. I believe it happens because (at least here > in the US) cities are mapped twice. Once using a node in the center of the > city and once using the administrative boundary multipolygon relation. I'm > guessing the nodes exist because some tools don't know how to deal with > relations. Or am I way off base here? > > Toby > > > I'm sure it's not a discussion for the dev-list but shortly, the place node(s) and the administrative boundary are two different things. You can have more than one place node inside a boundary polygon. In my country, we use the role admin_centre in the boundary relation to indicate which place node is the administrative centre. What you mention is more a rendering issue. Pieren
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