To me everything is ultimately an area (even a point, that you really really zoom into ;))
A point is thus only a convenient way of representing an area at a certain scale. On a world map, a city is a point, but on a city map, it becomes an area. Its possible to derive a point as a centroid of an area very easily, but you cannot get an area from a point. Looking at it this way, it just makes sense to map everything as an area whenever possible, and this makes points redundant. Hope I made the point clear. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Yogesh योगि < yog...@karnatakaeducation.org.in> wrote: > This was discussed on a osm-talk thread last week and thought sharing the > same here would be helpful for new mappers - > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015-April/072583.html > > Similar question was also asked long back on osm help site - > > > https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/617/when-you-have-a-building-and-a-surrounding-area-which-one-should-most-tags-be-on > > -- > Yogesh K S > Sent from an Electronic Device > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
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