I think what he means is that boundary=town goes on the polygon marking the edge of the town, and place=town goes on a node marking the historical center of the town (for example, a town square, or location of local government buildings), which may not be at the geographical center of the current town boundaries.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Tagging] boundary=town, place=town >From :mailto:stevag...@gmail.com Date :Sat Jan 08 19:05:48 America/Chicago 2011 On 9/01/2011 11:48 AM, John Smith wrote: > On 9 January 2011 10:48, John Smith<deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 9 January 2011 10:39, Steve Bennett<stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> Can anyone tell me the difference between these two tags? Only place=town >>> appears to be documented. Both have ~~4000 usages on ways. >> The place marker should be part of the boundary as well, because the >> centre of the boundary and the centre of the boundary will rarely be >> the same thing >> > boundary/area/place Sorry, I don't follow. There should be a place=town node that is part of the boundary=town way? How could the centre of the town be on its boundary? But anyway, I'm specifically asking about boundary=town ways, and place=town ways. Should a town have both a place=town way and a boundary=town way? If so, what's the distinction? Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list tagg...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
