[OSM Driver] "Center" in an OSM file

[Gustry]

With Overpass 7.5, we can have the centroid of the bbox for an object. Therefor, there is a new tag <center lat="" lon="" /> in the xml.

​http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/3MD

  <way id="42">
    <center lat="52.5560593" lon="-1.8233962"/>
    <nd ref="200512"/>
    <nd ref="175923349"/>
    <nd ref="200601"/>
    <tag k="abutters" v="residential"/>
    <tag k="highway" v="residential"/>
    <tag k="incline" v="-6.1%"/>
    <tag k="is_in" v="Sutton Coldfield"/>
    <tag k="maxspeed" v="30 mph"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Elms Road"/>
    <tag k="postal_code" v="B72"/>
  </way>

[Jukka Rahkonen]

So what do you suggest? Do you mean that OSM driver should recognize the "Center" as a secondary geometry of type POINT for the features?

[Gustry]

It was just an information about this new feature in Overpass. I let developpers make the best they think about this.

OGR could parse the osm file above, without node, and return a point geometry (like OverpassTurbo above) If theses nodes are present too, a new option can decide which geometry ?

[Even Rouault]

This sounds like extra complication for a non obvious benefit. I fail to see what you would do with only the center point of a line.