[OSM-newbies] roads assocaited with towns.

[Trevor Hook]

d'oh, the annoying thing is, I've used is_in before, just never in the
context of a road and so I didn't even think of that.

Thanks Nick

Trevor



On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Nick Austin <nick.w.austin at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
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