[OSM-talk] is_in

[Ben Laenen]

On Sunday 27 May 2007, David Earl wrote:
> True, but that's easily resolved by proximity if there's more than
> one hit. Without boundaries we can't decide which city, region or
> county something is in, but we can easily distinguish between two or
> more competing alternatives.

Not always true, see the Limburg example in my previous mail.

But then again, in a database you should store the id numbers, not the 
names, so no ambiguity occurs.

Greetings
Ben