[OSM-talk] is_in and similar tags

[Christoph Böhme]

OJ W <ojwlists at googlemail.com> schrieb:
> Could someone[1] setup a web-service where you send it a lat/lon and
> it returns a list of all boundaries that point is within?  So just one
> website imports the boundary data instead of everyone having to know
> how to do the 'is within' search[2].

I think you might be able to do this with
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Server_Side_Script

Cheers,
Christoph