[OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

[Emilie Laffray]

2009/11/18 Liz <edodd at billiau.net>

> 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.
>

I tend to agree with Liz here. Those polygons do not belong in OSM as they
don't represent anything besides helping you with what you are doing.
If you need them, then build them directly into your own database.

Emilie Laffray
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