[Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying InterstateRelations

[Apollinaris Schoell]

On 8 Mar 2010, at 15:26 , Paul Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:57:15 -0800, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
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>> Don't think this is clear. US:I is wrong, the network is only I. Any
>> consumer application can figure out that it is in US by itself.
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> Never mind there might be another country who has an "I" network.
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but a us highway can't have an y node with lat/lon in another country.
this has been said many times here. we have boundary polygons and this is 100% defined where a road is. in older times is_in tags have been used as a cheap way to add such info but this is deprecated. the beauty of osm is the freeform tagging. there is absolutely no need to pack in all info in a single tag. if for any reason the US should be included use another tag and leave the network just with the correct value.

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