[OSM-talk] Missing structure

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Jan 18, 2008 3:42 PM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't have any particular objections against your proposal (although it is
> somewhat complex), but I still think geographic boundaries are the way to
> go. Which do you think will happen first: Creation of boundaries and a way
> to quickly query a point against them (or rather the reverse: given a point,
> return the boundaries), or tagging of nearly every object in the database
> with an is_in tag?

FWIW, with the coastline checker being basically done, I'm considering
applying the same process to boundaries, a boundary checker. As a
side-effect it will produce a shapefile of all the boundaries, which
can be efficiently queried for is_in-ness...

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/