[OSM-dev] Boundary data

Shaun McDonald shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Thu Oct 30 23:30:34 GMT 2008


On 30 Oct 2008, at 22:11, Roland Olbricht wrote:
>
> The information in a) is only partially present, it is sensitive to  
> typos or
> name variants of countries (e.g. "Belgium", "Belgique" or "Congo", "DR
> Congo"), it is redundant, sometimes it is simply inaccurate (e.g. if  
> a way
> passes a point where three countries meet, there is no way to note  
> the change
> of the country on one side) and it does provide no chance for  
> additional
> information, e.g. the names of a country in different languages.

For name variants you can use name:language_code=....

Shaun




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