[Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

[Anthony]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Alan Millar <amillar503 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Furthermore, don't store redundant data in the OSM database.  There's
>> absolutely no excuse for having 200 ways which all say name=Cain Rd,
>> name_base=Cain, name_type=Rd.  It's absolutely terrible design.
>
> Patches welcome.  Please contribute a fix.

I've been fixing it.  The fact that "Cain Rd" has a base of "Cain" and
a type "Rd" is already in the database over and over and over again.
I've been taking out the redundant copies of that information (which
should have been in a separate lookup table from the beginning
anyway).