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

[Richard Fairhurst]

Lester Caine wrote:

> 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'.

No, not necessarily. Because the boundary data is freely available,  
whether in raw planet.osm form or in post-processed form, then you can  
use that to carry out any wild and wacky queries such as the above.  
See Andy's point about spatial queries.

> A lot of the 'tagging requests' look at a small isolated problem rather than
> the bigger picture.

Well, maybe, but don't assume that people don't have a "bigger  
picture" just because it's not the same as yours.

cheers
Richard