[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: zones for motorway/in town/outof town?]

[Radomir Cernoch]

Guenther Meyer píše v Čt 21. 05. 2009 v 00:49 +0200:
> Am Wednesday 20 May 2009 schrieb Radomir Cernoch:
> ...but you would need some kind of gis database/functions to evaluate the 
> polygon data.
> the easy way of reading just keys and values like with most of the other 
> features in the osm database would not be possible.

I have read somewhere (a few weeks ago) that querying whether "a point
lies in a country" can be done quickly. I was assuming that the same
should be possible for any polygon. However I am not aware of technical
details.

Can anyone confirm this, please?

Radek Černoch