[OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

[John Smith]

2009/11/13 Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org>:
> The is_in tag is not a lot of use either due to it being inconsistent.

I thought is_in is depreciated and replaced by polygons?

> While I don't think this list would be worth piping back in to the
> database, it might be useful for knowing what were missing.....

I can think of a lot of reasons why it would be great if that
information was in the OSM DB.

> Maybe Places should be area's rather than points anyway.

+1

> I'm, quite happy for the places to overlap I can think of more than
> one place where some small village has been overrun by the next large
> town. and while the village still exists as a row of small shops its
> now see by most as part of the larger town.

Over lapping areas might get messy. Then again in terms of cities they
have suburbs....