[OSM-talk] Populated places: how to use is_in tag?

[David Earl]

By the way, a few Italian cities have "name:en" tags, notably Venezia 
(Venice), Roma (Rome), Firenze (Florence), Milano (Milan) and Napoli 
(Naples) IIRC. It would be a shame to lose these, but there are 
sufficiently few they can be added back manually. It would be worse to 
end up with duplicate places.

David


On 08/10/2007 09:34, Niccolo Rigacci wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm about adding about 8000 points of Italian populated places.
> 
> The main purpose is to render place names into the map, so a 
> minimal tag schema is:
> 
>   <node id='-6' action='modify' visible='true' lat='45.438898' lon='12.330918'>
>     <tag k='name' v='Venezia' />
>     <tag k='place' v='city' />
>     <tag k='population' v='271073' />
>     <tag k='source' v='geodati.gfoss.it' />
>     <tag k='gfoss_id' v='3515' />
>   </node>
> 
> this includes "population" and "place" to aid rendering at 
> different zoom levels, etc.
> 
> The "gfoss_id" is the ID from the geodati.gfoss.it database, the 
> source of the data.
> 
> On the Italian mailing list it was suggested to add more tags, to 
> accomodate the administrative hierarchy:
> 
>  Regione -> Provincia -> Comune
> 
> It seems that there is not common agreement on how to accomplish 
> this. The only pertinent tag seems to be "is_in", but it is so
> loosely defined in the wiki.
> 
> I think that we must address rendering and searching, without 
> overloading the database with unnecessary information that need 
> maintenance (and that can be obtained from other sources).
> 
> Any suggestion?
>