On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:31:31 -0000 "Andy Robinson" <ajrli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you refer to old OS maps the location of the place name seems most often > to be positioned in relation to certain specific features. Where there is a > parish church they seem to use that, where not its often the post office or > the village pub, if none of these are present then some central other > communal feature of the hamlet for instance. Of course this could just be a > be cartographic approach taken by the OS. > > Cheers > Andy > This suggests that there is no formal definition for placement of the "Zero Point" and a common sense approach is taken. >From a number of hints in some of the genealogy lists I'm on, in .au the post >office and a 'coaching inn' were usually either next door to or opposite each >other and sometimes they were the same building. thanks mick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
