[OSM-talk] Duplicate TIGER ways along county lines

[John Smith]

--- On Mon, 24/8/09, dasdjenne at comcast.net <dasdjenne at comcast.net> wrote:

> How necessary is it to preserve left and
> right zip codes in the way data? (These are frequently
> inaccurate, and I would prefer not to have to research
> them).

It shouldn't be necessary to keep county, state, country or zip/post codes in any ways. This sort of meta information is best described by boundary=administrative relations instead, all the nodes and ways inside that area can then be derived from the boundary information.