On 03.05.2011 15:05, Pieren wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Felix Hartmann
<extremecar...@gmail.com <mailto: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).
Nope, it makes sense all the time. Cause boundaries really are not ment
for deducting information onto what's inside. This really slows down any
kind of processing (much much more than having data duplicated which
only takes up a bit more disk space).
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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