On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Ben Kelley <ben.kel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I definitely want to keep them. I don't think admin boundaries are just a > layer. > > They are needed to enclose ways to tell you the name of the place. I think > they are as important as street names. > > E.g. I search for George St. Which George St? Admin boundaries answer that > question.
That use case isn't a compelling demonstration of the need to store the information *in* the database though. Search tools should rightly make use of information from different databases (the Australian Gazetteer comes to mind). Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
