[OSM-talk-be] Addresses in Belgium

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 12:02:07AM +0100, Jo wrote:
> 2013/1/7 Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be>
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 06:06:02PM +0000, Jan-willem De Bleser wrote:
> > > Of course, that leads me to the question of "Why do
> > > we add addr:city at all, assuming that every house is fully within a
> > > city's boundaries?"
> >
> > The only reason I can see that being useful is that border between
> > 2 cities goes through the building.
> >
> 
> 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

That they can't extract the data doesn't mean we need to duplicate
it.  In general it's a bad idea to have multiple sources of the
same information, since they will conflict at some point.

> and Openstreetmap doesn't have an API (yet)
> that allows you to query what city an object is in.

Nominatim gives you an xml file that includes the city.


Kurt