[OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

[Emilie Laffray]

2009/11/16 Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com>

>
> Yes. Please don't include "this point is within such-and-such a
> polygon" data onto the point itself, it's redundant information and
> not helpful. When a county border is changed by legislation, then
> moving the border of the county should be sufficient for a mapper.
> Having to check and update 10,000 address nodes would be error-prone.
>
>
+1
is_in is completely useless especially as we improve the polygons like
county and administrative areas. I very strongly with Andy here on this
topic, especially considering how administrative areas are known to change
in different countries.

Emilie Laffray
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