[Tagging] Why addr:state rather than is_in:state? (response to 2010-12-26 05:29:46)

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> In the case of the name/ref, these tags could be further specified by the
> addition of some kind of indication of the issuing authority. Two adjoining
> authorities may have identically named/numbered entities and explicit
> disambiguation could be useful in some cases.

The network tag is used for this. But in these relations one route
with network=US:US enters multiple states, and the relation has been
broken at state lines. So each sub-relation gets is_in:state or
addr:state to specify in machine-readable form what state it's in.