On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Felix Hartmann <extremecar...@gmail.com>wrote:
> +1 > > boundaries are too often wrong or incomplete or if someone deletes them > accidentally (or renames them slightly) > > again the "is_in" discussion.... All these arguments above are also valid when you put the full address tags. It's always a good practice to avoid duplicated data in a database. It makes only sense if the address cannot be deduced from the boundaries (like in US, it seems). Don't forget the fundamentals : OSM is a geospatial database containing geospatial data. If you are a consumer, use a database server with geospatial functions like postGIS (otherwise we don't need coordinates in nodes). It's true that it requires some skills and learning curves and lazy programmers can always expect that contributors will do the job for them... Pieren
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