Hi, > I don't think, that the distance-from-target calculation is a good > solution, because a road at the periphery of a huge city could be > near to a small town in the neighborhood than to the place with the > right city tag.
That's a concept very typical of a programmer: I can think of cases where the idea doesn't work, and from this follows that the idea is not an acceptable solution. But let's not overlook that the idea works in the vast majority of cases! And in those few cases where City A's "Main St" is nearer to City B's place node than it is to City A's, I can always put an is_in tag. So: For disambiguation use the is_in tag of the street, and if there is none, use the nearest place node. The "name finder" service does this quite well I think. > Perhaps i will try the google geocoder for this task first and > concentrate my work on the routing itself until there is a better > way. The Google geocoder no doubt has superior data at the moment. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00.09' E008°23.33' _______________________________________________ Routing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/routing
