[OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

[Peter Childs]

2009/11/13 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> 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....
>

That may have once been villages, and may still be know as that by the locals.

My first though was for an generated list rather than entered
boarders, however thinking again this might need some human
intervention to work properly.

I'm not trying to reflect local government admin boarders, or postal
districts. more I need to go to High Street, Sudbury. I need to know
which one, (There are 5 and none are in the actual town of Sudbury but
in nearby villages...... So I need to clarify where to go (and know to
do so....) (The 5 are also in the same UK postal district so that does
not help either!) So my list needs to say "There is no such place
according to our records"


Peter.


Peter