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

[Lester Caine]

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> 
>> I suggest setting up a server dedicated to grabbing a planet every week,
>> processing it for boundaries, and automatically generating the is_in tags.
> 
> Server and boundary-processing is great; don't think we should  
> automatically add is_in tags, though. If (as you, Andy and I have all  
> now separately suggested, I think) the information can be fairly  
> easily extracted from boundaries, there is no point in duplicating  
> this in the database.
> 
> Better just to provide a webservice that, given a lat/long, can tell  
> you what country (/county/parish) it's in.

But that only addresses one small 'problem' and misses the bigger one of 
finding 'all the golf courses in England' or 'all the Islands in the 
Philippines'. A single lookup to find ALL the boundaries you are currently 
looking within is probably not a major overhead, but the reverse search is 
going to involve potentially hundreds of thousands of such enquiries?

A lot of the 'tagging requests' look at a small isolated problem rather than 
the bigger picture. The good practice guide is a start but we need to fill in 
a few holes still.

Ivan - Personally I have all the data I need as a relational model, but 
getting agreement on how UNIQUE tags can be identified in the planet data is 
not something I can do myself :( Other people are trying to solve the problem 
with the search database and I had not even noticed the 'Where am I?' button 
but the information it returns is still not particularly complete as it does 
not return WHICH Naga we are looking at in the Philippines on the fact that we 
are in the Philippines. SO how does Maning tidy things up so that the missing 
data is available?

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