[Talk-us] State abbreviations

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> That does seem to be the case, at least for Kansas:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/316956038
>
> But this doesn't really help nominatim specifically or any other
> application that might want to do a "is in KS" search.
>
> I don't think I knew there WERE single nodes for states... Why are
> there? It doesn't really make much sense to represent information
> about such a large area in a single point on the map.

Well since you put it like that, I won't try to argue that it is
correct, just that it is there.  I'll claim, "Hysterical Raisins" and
wave my hands a bit.  It could be as simple as, "We don't have state
abbreviations. I'll add them to the sate nodes, because the polygons
take too long to load in memory..."