I was obviously too slow and posted about the same changeset in the Austrian forum: Verwendung von place=municipality
Let me really just ask out of understanding: Why does it need two points on the map that have the same name and the purpose of painting the name of the municipality on the map?
I’m really just so confused about it because I’ve simply never seen this approach before anywhere where I mapped before. (And I don’t think I’m really that new to this project.)
Overpass Turbo of all admin-8 boundaries in Vorarlberg, Austria: overpass turbo
My understanding is that the town hall or similar has been used as the admin_centre (Example) and the subjective centre of the village as the label (Example) - but only very rarely!
By far the majority of these relations in this order (level 8) simply have a single node with admin_centre, which simultaneously accommodates the place=village|town|hamlet. I have never seen the concept with municipality before.
Referenced on the overview page of place: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Key:place#Ortsangaben
A place=municipality is a ‘local authority’ (Gebietskörperschaft), i.e. when a village has joined forces with other villages for administrative purposes. But that is really not the case here.
I tried to machine translate the one Wikipedia article linked to this wikidata and I have a gut feeling that the whole article is complete nonsense – is that possible?
As far as I understand it, the Wikipedia article is about exactly the same thing as the main article, isn’t it?
What is the difference of the two wikidata items?
The wiki says you should first add a place with place=municipality and then add this to the relation as a label. But I’m afraid that the German wiki is not weill maintained / up to date.