[OSM-newbies] roads assocaited with towns.

[Nick Austin]

Trevor,

You can place a tag on the lane if you want:
is_in:village=Woodford

The 'Place Boundary' would seem to be the popular way of doing this -
by tagging the village as a community (boundary=administrative,
admin_level=10).

Relationships don't seem to be a workable solution.

Nick.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Trevor Hook
<trevor.k.hook at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I was mapping some footpaths yesterday and came across a situation which I
> hadn't come across before and which lead me to think about how openstreetmap
> actually works.
>
> http://osm.org/go/eu6XfNE9--
>
> I mapped the footpath coming from the East between the river and the village
> of Woodford and heading out to the South.
>
> This footpath briefly follows the route of the a residential road named
> Church Street which is part of the village.
>
> My question is; how does Openstreet map know the lane is part of the
> village? I know my map is incomplete because I didn't map the connecting
> roads between Church Street and the main road, which itself is not connected
> to the POI Woodford. If I wanted to find a Church Street in Woodford how
> would openstreetmap (or any map based of OSM data) be able to process that
> request.
>
> Checking OSM, I've never seen a place name connected in anyway to a street.
>
> I can see 3 possible anwsers.
> 1) Geographical Proximity -   what happens when a road is the same distance
> between 2+ place names
> 2) A Relationship - I've looked in the wiki but didn't find anything
> appropriate for roads and place names, although it difficult to find stuff
> in the wiki unless I already know the name of the thing I'm looking for.
> 3) Place Boundaries - Drawing a village boundary and everything inside is
> part of that village, I never done that but it would seem logical
>
> Should I be placing some sort of relationship/boundary on these roads?
>
> Thanks
> Trevor