On 08/08/18 12:52, Bill Ricker wrote:
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 6:41 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com <mailto:graemefi...@gmail.com>> wrote:On 7 August 2018 at 21:56, Daniel Koć <daniel@koć.pl <mailto:daniel@ko%C4%87.pl>> wrote:For example nobody would say that a city is a pointI'm not disagreeing with you, but people do refer to them, & somehow even measure them, as points! I'm sure that you have the same situation in your country but an e.g. is my State capital, Brisbane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane>, which covers an area of 15842 km2, but is still apparently found exactly at: ... Quite so. To measure distances between towns/cities, some point is needed.While in theory someone wishing to do so could query for the Admin level outline and compute the centroid, when a government entity has declared a named point to match the Admin level boundary, it's convenient if everyone uses the same one. If there are countries which for which open-licensed town centers aren't available, the local mapping communities can decide what is right for them. Postoffice, Town Hall, Centroid, Flagpole, whatever.
The centre of a place is a little cultural, a little of frequent use and a little from signs. In Europe I suspect it is the railway station ..lots of signs pointing there. In rural Australia I would go with the post office, though the pub is quite popular. :)
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