[OSM-talk] is_in and similar tags

[Shaun McDonald]

On 28 Jul 2009, at 15:35, John Smith wrote:

>
> --- On Tue, 28/7/09, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What if boundary is not defined but the hierarchy is
>> defined, such as
>> with post codes?  Should people invent boundary
>> polygons based on just
>> what nodes/ways belong to the area?  I hope not.
>
> Why spend just as much time tagging every node, way and relation in  
> an area with this information, how would that be useful when a rough  
> polygon can essentially tag all those nodes?

Only use the is_in tag on the place nodes rather than every node.

Shaun

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