[OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

[Peter Childs]

2009/11/18 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> 2009/11/18 Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray at gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Liz never said that, she just doesn't want bots screwing up existing
> data in Australia similar to what has happened in the past.
>
> In fact she said such boundaries already exist in OSM.
>

I agree, No Bot should EVER be writing data into the database that was
interfered from other data. If the original data changes the inferred
data would need to change to, and we can't expect that to ever happen
correctly.

There may be a few bots trying to clean up the data to improve
constancy etc. but I'm not even sure that's a good idea, every time.

I'm now thinking that osm2pgsql may do the job I want any way.

Peter