I agree this position is debatable and finally arbitrary. And I find this particular position (for North America node) rather strange, it feels too much North, as if it was biased for Mercator projection maybe.
As arbitrary as it is, we could accept by definition something like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility#Continental_poles_of_inaccessibility On Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 10:21 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 07.08.2018 10:04, Ilya Zverev wrote: > > It is a strange question, which can be applied to virtually anything in > > OSM. Potholes — are they useful? > > Ok, I'll re-word: > > How is a continent node verifiable, especially with regards to its > position? What is our plan if two people should start edit-warring about > whether the continent node should be at 51.0000002, -109.0000002 (as it > currently is), or rather at 51,-109 or at 50,-108? > > Representing a tree or a pothole with a node is not exact either, but > it's more or less within the accuracy of our available measurement > devices. Representing a city with a node is much less accurate, but > people seem to agree for most cities, placing the city node in the heart > of the old city, or where the city hall is, or some such. > > Do we really want to approximate whole continents with a point, and if > we do, where is that point to be placed? > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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