On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 12:02:07AM +0100, Jo wrote: > 2013/1/7 Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be> > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 06:06:02PM +0000, Jan-willem De Bleser wrote: > > > Of course, that leads me to the question of "Why do > > > we add addr:city at all, assuming that every house is fully within a > > > city's boundaries?" > > > > The only reason I can see that being useful is that border between > > 2 cities goes through the building. > > > > The reason why I want to add addr:city and addr:postcode via an > associatedStreet relation is that not all data consumers have geographic > databases at their disposal
That they can't extract the data doesn't mean we need to duplicate it. In general it's a bad idea to have multiple sources of the same information, since they will conflict at some point. > and Openstreetmap doesn't have an API (yet) > that allows you to query what city an object is in. Nominatim gives you an xml file that includes the city. Kurt _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
