[OSM-talk] Finding a particular street on the GPS

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi,

> The is_in
> could help, but I don't think it's the answer. Probably what's going
> to be required is a lookup of the bounding box of the way against a
> city, region, etc. name database at the time when the GPS maps are
> generated.

IMO this will be answered by our own database sooner or later. One day we will 
have all kinds of boundaries as ways in our database.

The is_in tag IMO is a redundant nonsense. You needed to tag all kind of stuff 
into several is_in tags (city, county, continent etc.).

Best regards,

ce