<div class="gmail_quote">2013/1/7 Kurt Roeckx <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kurt@roeckx.be" target="_blank">kurt@roeckx.be</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 06:06:02PM +0000, Jan-willem De Bleser wrote:<br>
> Of course, that leads me to the question of "Why do<br>
> we add addr:city at all, assuming that every house is fully within a<br>
> city's boundaries?"<br>
<br>
</div>The only reason I can see that being useful is that border between<br>
2 cities goes through the building.<br></blockquote><div><br>The reason why I want to add addr:city and addr:postcode via an associatedStreet relation is that not all data consumers have geographic databases at their disposal and Openstreetmap doesn't have an API (yet) that allows you to query what city an object is in.<br>
It is trivial though to ask what associatedStreet relation does an object belong to and get the complete address that way.<br><br>Jo<br></div></div>