<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Personally, I think the is_in: tags are entirely unnecessary, duplicate information. It takes a bit of analysis to get there, or an extract ... but what is gained by these is_in tags? <br></span></div><div> <br>In this case, with the ambiguity, best to leave it off entirely, IMO.<br><br></div><div>== Mikel Maron ==<br>+14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Schuyler Erle <schuyler@nocat.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> hot
<hot@openstreetmap.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, August 14, 2011 5:21 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [HOT] sensitivity to "country" in the Horn of Africa<br></font><br>Question for the list:<br><br>In reviewing prior imports of GNS into OSM, I note that it is customary to use the "is_in:country" and "is_in:country_code" tags to denote within which country a given point lies.<br><br>However, the situation in the Horn of Africa is not so simple. As you are all undoubtedly aware, the area internationally recognized as the Republic of Somalia also contains two other de facto autonomous regions: Puntland, and Somaliland, the latter of which has declared independence from Somalia.<br><br>The data import that I am working on covers the entirety of the areas claimed by Somalia, Puntland, and Somaliland. Should I just leave out the is_in:* tags? Or should I leave them in, but use the
names/codes recognized by other national governments? I don't want to get into trying to denote anything more complex than that. Thoughts?<br><br>SDE <br>_______________________________________________<br>HOT mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a><br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>