[Talk-us] Parks, etc. Points or outlines

2012-04-24 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Hi all, In doing the remap in LA, I've run across parks, some schools and other map features that are marked with both points and outlines. For La Cienega Park, the park is outlined, coded park and named. There also is a point for La Cienega Park. My initial impulse was to delete

Re: [Talk-us] Parks, etc. Points or outlines

2012-04-24 Thread Greg Troxel
Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com writes: In doing the remap in LA, I've run across parks, some schools and other map features that are marked with both points and outlines. For La Cienega Park, the park is outlined, coded park and named. There also is a point for La Cienega

Re: [Talk-us] Parks, etc. Points or outlines

2012-04-24 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Hi all, In doing the remap in LA, I've run across parks, some schools and other map features that are marked with both points and outlines.  For La Cienega Park, the park is outlined, coded park and named.

Re: [Talk-us] Parks, etc. Points or outlines

2012-04-24 Thread Gregory Arenius
If there is a point and an area I keep the area and delete the point. If the point has data I'd like to keep, as is often the case when I trace a park on the map and want to use the name and other info from a GNIS point I simply copy the attributes over. To easily copy the attributes over in

Re: [Talk-us] Parks, etc. Points or outlines

2012-04-24 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/24/2012 2:38 PM, Josh Doe wrote: Yes, there should be only one feature for each real world object, and the way/multipolygon has more spatial information, however the nodes might have other useful information like the GNIS feature ID. For this matter, why are there county nodes all over

Re: [Talk-us] Parks, etc. Points or outlines

2012-04-24 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/24/2012 10:21 PM, Toby Murray wrote: I think the reason they exist is the same reason why cities always have a node in addition to their administrative boundaries. And states/countries too far that matter. Most renderers render the name from the nodes, not the admin boundaries. This makes