On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Mike N. <nice...@att.net> wrote: > <tag k="addr:street" v="Big Grove Rd" /> > <tag k="addr:state" v="MyState" /> > <tag k="addr:county" v="MyCity, ST" /> > <tag k="addr:country" v="US" /> > > > I believe people have been saying that this information is not necessary, > and is_in is also not necessary for 99% of cases, so we can save space by > not including that for the Karlsruhe Schema. (But I don't know how the > namefinder works).
Yes. Please don't include "this point is within such-and-such a polygon" data onto the point itself, it's redundant information and not helpful. When a county border is changed by legislation, then moving the border of the county should be sufficient for a mapper. Having to check and update 10,000 address nodes would be error-prone. Adding county/state/country data to address points will lead to a similar problem as we have with the original TIGER node tags - it'll takes ages to remove them further down the line! Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk