[OSM-talk] Nominatim - Does it use the is_in tag?

[Hakuch]

following the wiki, its not deprecated

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:is_in

However, I really would love to see a scheme that shows how nominatim
finds it results..

On 16.08.2016 15:29, Dave F wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've heard a claim from a user who still wants to use the is_in:* tag as
> well as boundary tags that Nominatim uses is_in as preference because
> "geospacial mathematics is resource intensive".
> 
> Is this true?
> 
> I thought geospacial calculations were fairly light on processing power.
> 
> I also thought is_in:* was to be discouraged. Being hard coding, if a
> boundary was to change all affected entities would become inaccurate.
> 
> Thanks
> Dave F.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 0x3CBE432B.asc
Type: application/pgp-keys
Size: 3097 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20160816/9dbb9d66/attachment.key>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 0x3CBE432B.asc
Type: application/pgp-keys
Size: 3096 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20160816/9dbb9d66/attachment-0001.key>