[OSM-talk] Tag 'is_in' workable ?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Aurélien FILEZ wrote:
> We cannot know in which country is this city. because 'France' in the 
> 'is_in' tag can reference to a district name or I don't know. Also, it's 
> difficult to exploit (we have to parse, to compare etc., it's not 
> productive).

Yes. The is_in tag is really a relic of the time when we didn't have 
boundary polygons etc.; today, it should not be used because services 
like Nominatim can determine automatically which region(s) an object is in.

Bye
Frederik

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