On 28/04/2013 09:49, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Hi,
I've noticed (through doing nominatim searches) that a small number of
UK cities (i.e. Manchester and Leeds) do not appear to have a place=city
node, only an administrative boundary.
Is this deliberate? I've tried other large UK cities and all of those
have a place=city node.
If it's a genuine error I'll add Manchester back (assuming Piccadilly
Gardens is the centre, unless anyone has any better suggestions) but
don't know Leeds well enough to know what might be thought of as the centre.
In general, it shouldn't be necessary to have a node and an area which
represent the same thing.
Nodes were historically used for things like car parks before we had
satellite imagery and everything had to be estimated from GPS, but now
we have those, areas have largely taken over.
Asking the question 'where should I put it' just illustrates why a node
is a problem, an approximation.
Larger and especially irregularly shaped areas may tend to get their
labels placed in less than obvious places on renderings, which I guess
is why so few of the place nodes have been removed when the areas were
introduced, unlike the almost religious fervour to abolish nodes for car
parks, schools and churches when areas were made for them.
David
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