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Mark Williams schrieb:
> Max Power wrote:
>> I've looked in some data of the planet.osm file and i'm wondering, why there 
>> are no tags like "country=" and "city=" for ways. So you can't make a useful 
>> routing, because you want to search for example the route from one road in 
>> Paris to one road in Berlin. You don't want to click somewhere in the map to 
>> mark it as start or end point. Is it planned to integrate such tags? Or is 
>> there anywhere a relation like country->city->road in planet.osm? Can i find 
>> cities in the data?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Herodot
>>
>>              
> 
> It's place=city, or place=whatever - you should find Paris tagged as
> place=city, name=Paris, with the is_in tag to be sure which for towns
> with commoner names.
> 
> There isn't yet a relation as you describe, though a simple enough
> distance-from-target calculation should do the job? It is something
> planned for the future.

It's much more simple in many places.
The place-attribute can be used on areas as well,
not just on points.

Marcus
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