[OSM-talk] Nominatim & US places

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 05:50:16PM +0000, Shaun McDonald wrote:
> 
> > so should we be
> > 
> > 1) adding explicit info to ways about town/county
> 
> No, that causes huge amounts of duplicate info that is difficult to update.
> 
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > 2) fixing county & town boundary relations
> 
> This is much better. Once the boundary has been fixed, then the point that may be there for the place should be removed too.

Having a node to indicate the center of a town/city/... can be
useful too, even if you already have a boundary for it.


Kurt