On 24/07/2010 21:16, Donald Campbell II wrote:
I'm wondering what's the right way to do a boundary of a village or
small town. Ideally the map will show the name and everything inside
will know the right place to be "is_in". Now if you notice at the link
here
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=6.3608&lon=-57.5838&zoom=14&layers=M
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=6.3608&lon=-57.5838&zoom=14&layers=M>)
there's
2 villages side by side, one marked with a POI that shows up labeled,
the other which is defined by a boundary. I think that sort of boundary
is a bit academic and doesn't really need to show on the default map,
perhaps I've chosen the wrong kind, also that sort of boundary doesn't
leave a label HOWEVER searching for any of those street names properly
shows they are in Bath.
So is Bath done right? Should those boundaries show up visibly or is
there another way to do it that makes more sense? Do you just have to
do it both ways to get a label to show up? Use a relation instead?
I think part of the problem is the boundary is using the place_name tag,
which isn't usually rendered. If you just tag the name with name= (plus
place=village etc), then I think it will render a place name label in
the middle.
Craig
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