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

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

<quote who="Lester Caine">

> 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?

If you want to manually manage the is_in tag in 20 millions of nodes,
please be my guest.

I suggest setting up a server dedicated to grabbing a planet every week,
processing it for boundaries, and automatically generating the is_in tags.
Or cached data on a tile-by-tile basis, for that matter.


-- 
Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org>

Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta
compleja.