Well I started downloading data from the XAPI... Turns out Alaska doesn't seem to have a boundary relation! Or am I missing something?
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That does seem to be the case, at least for Kansas: >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/316956038 >> >> But this doesn't really help nominatim specifically or any other >> application that might want to do a "is in KS" search. >> >> I don't think I knew there WERE single nodes for states... Why are >> there? It doesn't really make much sense to represent information >> about such a large area in a single point on the map. > > Well since you put it like that, I won't try to argue that it is > correct, just that it is there. I'll claim, "Hysterical Raisins" and > wave my hands a bit. It could be as simple as, "We don't have state > abbreviations. I'll add them to the sate nodes, because the polygons > take too long to load in memory..." > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
