What's the center point of your city?

[bandit957]

For Cincinnati, I'd say 5th & Vine (a corner of Fountain Square).

My hometown of Highland Heights is tricky. I place the centerpoint at Main & Renshaw, since that's where the city's original model home was.

[empirestate]

Montréal: Hmm... Rue Sainte-Catherine and Rue Saint-Laurent?

Do you mean Boulevard Saint-Laurent? I was guessing further south at Place du Canada/Gare Central.

[sammi]

Manila:
https://www.google.com/maps/@14.5829713,120.9786119,16z
Rizal Park, km 0 of all Philippine highways. (You could also say this is the center point of the entire country.) I don't know where to put the exact point, but the km 0 monument is on the side facing Roxas Blvd. Other alternatives would be Intramuros (the bunch of streets just north of there) and near Central Terminal metro station, also roughly in the same area.

Baguio:
https://www.google.com/maps/@16.4108943,120.5944883,17z
I'd probably put the center right in the middle of Burnham Lake.

[ET21]

Galena: Dodge and Franklin

Why there? There seems to be a pretty obvious downtown area several blocks to the south.

Historic downtown technically does go up Franklin street, as the downtown has almost a triple-decker layout. Since the commercial area does go a bit further north, it seemed to be the best place.

In terms now of what you were thinking, it would be at US-20 and Main St

Hmm, that's another unexpected choice. For what it's worth, my best guess, having never visited to town, would be Main St. at Perry or Hill, someplace like that: http://goo.gl/maps/D8FhW

Or maybe even at the nearby welcome center, which looks like a historic civic building: http://goo.gl/maps/Ruzwe

Franklin & Dodge, however, brings me to a (very attractive) residential intersection somewhat outside the apparent center of town: http://goo.gl/maps/UIlgx

Likewise, US 20 at Main St. seems to be along a relatively peripheral highway, at the very far end of the main drag: http://goo.gl/maps/iR6Vr

I wondered if there's something at these locations that I can't see from Google, that makes them candidates for the center point?

There are some businesses and city services if you were turning left at Main (assuming you're going west on 20). The local paper (Gazette) along with a boating and canoe shop are down the road.

I do get what you're looking for though, I just tend to centralize the point for Galena considering the town boundaries and not the central business district.

[empirestate]

I do get what you're looking for though, I just tend to centralize the point for Galena considering the town boundaries and not the central business district.

I see; you're thinking of perhaps a slightly different question then. It seems to me that the socio-cultural, or ethno-historical, or whatever you want to call it, center point would not be subject to change if the town boundaries were suddenly altered. It may, of course, move for other reasons, but they would have to result in an actual change of where the center of activity is (otherwise, every city's center point would be the location of the first building ever constructed there).

That said, having looked at this town so much recently on Google, I now really want to visit it!

[agentsteel53]

Manila:
https://www.google.com/maps/@14.5829713,120.9786119,16z
Rizal Park, km 0 of all Philippine highways. (You could also say this is the center point of the entire country.) I don't know where to put the exact point, but the km 0 monument is on the side facing Roxas Blvd. Other alternatives would be Intramuros (the bunch of streets just north of there) and near Central Terminal metro station, also roughly in the same area.

Budapest has a kilometer 0 monument as well.  it's on the Buda side, just to the west of the Chain Bridge.  given that Budapest is a fairly recent union of two old cities, and most of the buildings of national importance are on the Buda side, something as simple as the 0 stone is probably the best bet, for both the city and country center.

[ET21]

I do get what you're looking for though, I just tend to centralize the point for Galena considering the town boundaries and not the central business district.

I see; you're thinking of perhaps a slightly different question then. It seems to me that the socio-cultural, or ethno-historical, or whatever you want to call it, center point would not be subject to change if the town boundaries were suddenly altered. It may, of course, move for other reasons, but they would have to result in an actual change of where the center of activity is (otherwise, every city's center point would be the location of the first building ever constructed there).

That said, having looked at this town so much recently on Google, I now really want to visit it!

The entire downtown area is a historical landmark, really good restaurants, kinda like an oasis between Freeport and Dubuque