[OSM-talk] street directory from OSM data

[Florian Lohoff]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:10:04PM +0100, David Earl wrote:
> My next intended step with namefinder is kind of like this. I plan to 
> expose the names in the namefinder database in gazetteer pages. It would 
> be a simple further step to limit the results to a bounding box.
> 
> Many of the problems you'd encounter in doing this would be the same 
> ones I have already addressed, like the very large number of duplicate 
> names.

How would the link from Street to ZIP Code/City Name work? From what i
read there is currently no such link possible and its just a matter of
what is the nearest village/city/town.

How is this stored in other map databases e.g. commercial ones? Does
every path have an is_in equivalent link?

I mean every TomTom handheld device known which subset of streets to
search when entering a city name ...

Flo
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