[OSM-talk] Naga City in OSM Re: GML to OSM

[Lester Caine]

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Lester Caine wrote:
> 
>> Richard - I have been banging on about the complete anarchy in   
>> relational data
>> for over three years now and I don't think that any of the proposals to tidy
>> things up have been accepted.
> 
> Indeed they haven't. But "making OSM fully relational" is not at all  
> the same as "adding place labels to countries on small scale maps".  
> Being able to find out where Naga City is only requires the latter.

How come it's not the same problem?
Where do you get the information from as to WHICH Naga City or even which 
country you are looking at?

Something that has already been discussed is an information box for the corner 
of a map with reference data, but without information accessible quickly from 
the data how do you populate that box? Cached data on a tile by tile basis may 
be possible, but it still requires access to the raw data in the first place 
and having to search a large adjacent area just to find a country name is 
silly when a properly managed is_in would return it in the one database query?

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