[OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

Pierre-Alain Dorange pdorange at mac.com
Wed May 4 07:07:07 BST 2011


Felix Hartmann <extremecarver at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nope, it makes sense all the time. Cause boundaries really are not ment
> for deducting information onto what's inside. This really slows down any
> kind of processing (much much more than having data duplicated which 
> only takes up a bit more disk space).

Nominatim use them (boundariy relations) efficiently.

Adding extra data on every address is not a bit more space it can be
huge when you add addresses on every house of a city. And that also
really slow down things.

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Pierre-Alain Dorange
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