And of course there will be exceptions. Puerto Princesa City Hall is several kilometers away from the traditional city center/poblacion. Some towns are also relocating town halls away from the poblacion in order to add more buildings and decongest the center.
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I suggest to place the node in the town/city proper, which is not the > geographical center and not always where the city or town hall is. The > city/town proper is basically where the town plaza or poblacion area is. > Usually, it's where the church or public market is. > > For example, the Las Pinas city hall is here: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.4496929645538&mlon=120.982496738434&zoom=14 > > But I placed the Las Pinas place=city node in the poblacion area, where the > plaza and the main church (home of the famous Bamboo Organ) is: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.4809997081757&mlon=120.981595516205&zoom=14 > > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Jim Morgan <j...@datalude.com> wrote: >> >> Ed Garcia wrote, On Tuesday, 06 April, 2010 10:05 PM: >> > Glad you agree guys! Surprised to see so many +1s in barely an hour >> > from posting. Okay then, I'll start with San Antonio in Zambales. That >> > town node is currently so far away from town proper ... it is currently >> > located on the mountains. >> >> Seems like a lot of these town / village / city markers are way off the >> mark to begin with. I guess they were imported en masse from an imprecise >> source. They usually seem to be 1 or 2 km off the mark. Usually when I find >> them, I'll drag them closer to a known settlement -- sort of plonk it in the >> middle of the most obvious mass of houses on a satellite view, or near the >> most obvious confluence of roads. Then when someone with more local >> knowledge finds it, they drag it closer to the City Hall ... and when the >> City Hall is actually on the map, then it's truly accurate. >> >> This process of gradually getting more and more precise seems to be what >> OSM is all about really. >> >> Jim >> >> -- >> datalude: information security >> e: j...@datalude.com >> Philippines: +63 2 403 1311 / mob: +63 920 912 5830 >> Hong Kong: +852 6840 6693 >> w: http://www.datalude.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk-ph mailing list >> talk-ph@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > > > -- > http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
