[Talk-us] is_in=county, ST?

[Ian Dees]

This is supremely confusing to Nominatim, which will look for a nearby
place=* node to attach to if something is not inside an administrative
boundary leading to situations where a city that has nothing to do with Des
Moines, IA (but still in Des Moines County) will be marked as a suburb of
Des Moines city.

So yes, we should change these to be more descriptive.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've seen a number of ways where tiger:county was changed to is_in, leading
> to values like is_in=Orange, FL for Orange County, Florida. This seems less
> than ideal and sometimes misleading: does is_in=Des Moines, IA mean that
> it's in the city of Des Moines or in Des Moines County, which is in the far
> corner of the state? Is there any reason not to change these to
> is_in:county?
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