[OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

[Peter Childs]

2009/11/18 Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de>:
> Liz schrieb:
>> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Peter Childs wrote:
>>> What I would like to do is write a script that takes the planet and
>>> gives a list of the places (towns, villages etc) and a polygon/area
>>> for each place.
>> Please leave australia out of your bot's reach.
>> we have imported government data which has achieved this for us.
>> Liz
>
> Please do not import this data into the DB automaticly - instead you may
> produce KML files or sth. we can overlay on the maps to verify the
> results first.
>
> Peter
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That would be my plan, If any, Its meta data, its data created from
OSM so it really has no place in the database, If a script can create
the data, then that script can can be run again and again, The data is
not needed in the database and should not be there. If the data in OSM
changes the results from the script will change and that is how it
should be.

Basically like osm2pgsql.

Peter