Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Association OSMfr pour réserve citoyenne ?

2015-04-15 Thread Jānis Marks Gailis


On 2015.04.15. 18:14, Brice MALLET wrote:
Jean-Marc : tu indiquais essayer de voir avec un contact chez 
Wikimedia-fr pour récupérer leur dossier.

Cette piste a t'elle débouchée ?

Malheureusement, je me suis heurté à un refus.
Jean-Marc

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Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Association OSMfr pour réserve citoyenne ?

2015-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Gailis - Janis Marks Gailis
Je vais essayer de voir avec un contact chez Wikimedia-fr pour récupérer leur
dossier.
Jean-Marc Gailis
 Le 10 février 2015 à 15:19, Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr a écrit
 :


 A première vue, ça me semble une bonne idée.

 Vincent et/ou Brice, vous voulez dégrossir le sujet ?


 Le 10/02/2015 14:53, Vincent Bergeot a écrit :
  Le 10/02/2015 09:03, Brice MALLET a écrit :
  Une démarche officielle de la part de l'association vous semble
  t'elle possible ?
  Si oui, en profiter pour engager une démarche de demande d'agrément
  (http://www.education.gouv.fr/cid21129/les-associations-agreees-et-ou-subventionnees-par-l-education-nationale.html)
 
 
  on peut voir que wikimedia france est référencée dans la liste des
  associations agréées au niveau national. On peut donc supposer (si
  c'est un raccourci désolé) que OSM-fr peut démarcher pour la demande
  d'agrément de part les similitudes entres les projets (je sais qu'il y
  a des différences aux niveaux des associations : employeuse pour
  wikimedia-fr et non employeuse pour OSM-fr).
 
  Si il doit y avoir une demande, n'est-il pas possible de récupérer le
  dossier de wikimedia-france et de l'adapter ? (à quand un wiki des
  demandes de subventions et dossiers :) )
 
  Concernant l'intérêt de l'agrément : cela facilite la possibilité
  d'intervenir en classe et c'est une reconnaissance par l'éducation
  nationale (AMHA pas de subventions possible).
 
  Bonne journée
 

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Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Cartographie de l'infrastructure et loi anti-terroriste

2014-09-15 Thread Jean-Marc Gailis - Jānis-Marks Gailis
On 15/09/2014 22:30, François Lacombe wrote:
 Bonsoir,
Hello!
 La nouvelle loi de programmation militaire, son volet anti-terroriste ainsi
 que leurs nombreux amendements sont en cours d'étude au parlement (si ils
 n'ont pas déjà été votés).
 Sans en connaitre le contenu, j’imagine que des activités de cartographie
 un peu poussées comme ce que certains, dont moi, font sur OSM peuvent être
 impactées.
Moui, le gouv va surtout tenter de remonter ses sondages, par des
mesures sééécuritaires ma chèèère dame.
 Peut-être que cette fois-ci, il pourra être interdit noir sur blanc de
 concentrer de l'information sur les centraux téléphoniques ou les postes
 source électriques.
Ça oui, ça va bientôt être classifié comme de la planification d'actes
terroristes si ça se trouve. En fait, c'est assez ambigu, puisque ce
genre d'informations peut être collecté par des personnes planifiant un
attentat à la sûreté de l'État; même si les fadas de réseaux
électriques/aquifères/fibre/cuivre veulent avoir ces données.
(J'en fait partie.)
 
 Est-ce que quelqu'un sur cette liste a déjà jeté un coup d'oeuil là dessus ?
J'y réfléchis.
 M'est avis qu'OSM, de par sa nature internationale et d'origine
 Britannique, ne pourrait pas être concerné par cette loi.
 Par contre les contributeurs pris individuellement pourraient l'être.
Exactement, càd que les serveurs situés aux UK ne sont pas touchés par
la législation française, mais la collecte de données pouvant être
utilisées pour planifier un attentat peut être considérée comme la
preuve de l'existence de la planification d'un attentat.
Le mieux serait de faire faire ce travail de collecte de données depuis
l'étranger, mais c'est malheureusement impossible techniquement (parce
que le contributeur de bureau, ça va pour certaines choses, faut bien
rentrer les données; mais le contributeur de terrain, c'est la meilleure
solution).
Le plus important est de pouvoir éviter les pressions de certains
services sur certaines personnes qui dirigeantes dans l'asso, pourraient
être considérées comme responsââbles des données sur OSM, et donc
pourraient subir ce que M. le Président de Wikimedia France a subi.

On ne va pas violer la loi, donc peut-être que le mieux est de ne pas
cartographier certaines infrastructures sensibles.

Jean-Marc Gailis
Président de ViaNET
FAI Associatif


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Re: [OSM-talk-fr] ajout des entêtes cors http://api.openstreetmap.fr/api

2014-07-20 Thread Jean-Marc Gailis - Jānis-Marks Gailis
Bonjour,

Pour ceux qui en ont marre de recevoir ces messages, je conseille 
comme solution **provisoire** de filtrer les messages de 
Jean-François, pour les envoyer dans la corbeille.

Testé avec Thunderbird, ça marche très bien.

Librement,

-- 
Jean-Marc Gailis
Président de ViaNET
Les Voies de l'Internet
FAI Associatif



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Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Site web pour partager des punaises/routes?

2014-07-12 Thread Jean-Marc Gailis - Jānis-Marks Gailis
Essaye http://umap.openstreetmap.fr

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Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-19 Thread MarkS

On 19/03/2012 12:40, John Sturdy wrote:

I started to work on Hampshire, but got the following request from a decliner:


I was wondering if you would mind refraining from 're-mapping' my contributions 
for the time being? I'm still in discussions  with the OSMF regarding 
re-licensing some of my contributions which come from a 3rd party source not 
compatible with the new terms.



Obviously we hope to have concluded this work before the 1st of April deadline. 
In the meantime the more of my contributions that are deleted means more work 
for me to put right once we get the licensing sorted.


I think the time's getting close enough that I'll resume that work anyway.

__John
I've been working on the main roads in south of England over the past 
few weeks. I deliberately avoided parts of Hampshire as I'd heard Andy 
Street was still considering and if possible I'd prefer people accepted 
than we remap.


However, with just two weeks left (possibly less if this continuous 
rebuild idea is going ahead and a fully ODBL map is due on 1 April) then 
I think the time has come to remap what we can.


We've been at the licence change for a long time and I'm not sure how 
something will come up in the next few days that will make a difference 
in this case, unless somebody has more info they can share on this.



Mark_S


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Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-13 Thread MarkS



It is difficult to chase tainted junctions though.

--
Andrew



I've knocked something together as a trial for tainted junctions.  My 
scripts extract the nodes at the start and end of a given set of ways 
and pass them through quick history to check the licence state.


So far I've done motorways (and just motorways not links) that gives a 
total of 19 junction nodes due to be removed (where junction=one way 
meets another, not an actual motorway junction).  Thus I'd expect 19 
gaps in the UK motorway system come 1 April. This is quite good (and is 
probably a result that all the ways having been remapped).


I'm not sure how far I can extend this though.  The UK motorway system 
has around 10,000 unique nodes at the start/end of ways.  Given that I 
have to ask quick history to process all these nodes that number is 
quite high. It might be possible to do the same process for Trunk Roads 
(and their links) but I suspect that for ordinary A-Roads the list of 
start/end nodes is likely to be too long to to deal with.  Note: It is 
processing the intial list that is the problem, once I've process that 
list I only need to ask about problem nodes the next time.


More info and a list of the problem nodes are on the wiki: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:MarkS/Remapping




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Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-11 Thread MarkS



Does your CSV list take into account ways tagged with ODbL=clean? If
not (and assuming the rebuild process will honour such tagging) would
it be possible for such objects to be excluded from your list?

Thanks,

Robert.



Good spot.

No my list didn't allow for odbl=clean.   However, the original roads 
list did come from Simon Poole's badmap database so it is likely that 
did allow for odbl=clean and it is only subsequent additions of this tag 
that weren't picked up.


I've updated the script and put the latest list on the wiki 
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:MarkS/Remapping).


Adding odbl=clean removed 173 objects from the list.

In total I now make it 1337 that will be lost.   This is excellent progress.

Mark_S


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Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-08 Thread MarkS



Do you know
if/when that file will be updated as ways are re-mapped?




I've done an update and put some info on a wiki page: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:MarkS/Remapping


The page has the latest counts (down to 1889 currently expected to be 
deleted).  It also has a link to a CSV file with the current list in it.



I've also done something similar for London Tube Stations. This is also 
on the page and shows 50 expected to be deleted and another 50 with some 
form of data loss (ie. reversion to an earlier state).



I'll update these on an ad-hoc basis until the licence change has occurred.


Mark_S




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Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-06 Thread MarkS




There are lots of patches of detail in London that are still at risk:
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=13lat=51.51807lon=-0.1225layers=00B%0D%0A
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=13lat=51.51807lon=-0.1225layers=00B%0D%0A



My worry in Central London is the large number of traffic lights that 
appear when you zoom in.  Presumably these are junctions of two ways 
where the junction node will disppear and the ways will nolonger connect.


Whilst the traffic lights are easy to spot there must be many more 
junctions that don't have lights that will also break. I'm not sure 
these are easy to spot without zooming right in on OSMI.


Mark_S


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Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-06 Thread MarkS

On 06/03/2012 14:31, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote:



Excellent -- thanks to both of you for getting this done. Do you know
if/when that file will be updated as ways are re-mapped?




I was playing around tonight with a combination of the Quick History 
Service and Overpass to requery the objects so I could update parts of 
the list for my own reference.


The script passes groups all the ways together and makes a single call 
to overpass then a single call to quick history.  This means I could 
probably get away with doing the whole list (although I'm not confident 
if the APIs should be used in this way).


If nobody raises an objection then I'll give this a go in a few days 
otherwise we can ask Simon.



The good news though is that I believe I've managed to save all the 
motorways on the list.  I've also done a lot of the motorway_link roads, 
although there are a couple of junctions (on the M1 I believe) where it 
looks like the junctions have been remodelled and neither bing or OS 
Street View appear to be up to date.








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Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-03 Thread MarkS

I agree that we want to try and have a complete main road network network.

Whilst longish stretches of road are easy to spot there are a lot of 
other small sections (eg. bridges) which are harder to see on cleanmap 
(unless the rest of the area is clean).


We also have the issue of nodes going at highway junctions. Even if the 
ways stay we may loose the critical join.  There a still a number of 
motorway junctions like this across the UK (and there must be plenty on 
trunk roads).  You need OSMI to see these and with things like footpaths 
(which we can't remap remotely) adding to the red it is very difficult 
to spot.   I do wonder if it would be easier to erase things we can't 
remap so we can identify more easily those we can.


As Robert says getting a list of problem highway nodes/ways would be a 
good step.


Mark_S


On 03/03/2012 09:19, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote:

On 2 March 2012 14:35, Richard Fairhurstrich...@systemed.net  wrote:

We change to the new licence in just under a month's time, so it's a good
time to look at the current state of the UK.


We're almost certainly not going to be able to able to get the UK
completely clean by the switch-over, and it's definitely good if we
can prioritise work on particularly badly-tainted areas. But I wonder
if another prioritisation approach might be useful too -- prioritising
certain high-value types of objects, where-ever they might be.

For instance, as far as routing is concerned, any gaps in the major
road network is likely to cause significant problems for data-users.
So might it be possible for someone to generate a list of
highway=motorway and highway=trunk objects that are tainted, so people
could work on eliminating those. The idea could extended to include
the corresponding *_link ways, and if progress is good we could
continue to do highway=primary and highway=secondary.

We might want to do the same for railway=rail and perhaps
waterway=river. Are there any other types of object people can think
of that might be worth prioritising?

You can sort of look for these types of object using BadMap [1] at low
zooms, but it's not that easy, and the low zooms aren't updated as
often I don't think. It would be much easier if there was a specific
list of objects to work from. I'm afraid I don't have the hardware /
experience / technical expertise to generate the data sets, but maybe
someone who does might think it's a good idea...

Robert.

[1] http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=6lat=54.28388lon=-3.2layers=00B0





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Re: [OSM-talk] info on understanding the Deep Diff page

2012-02-06 Thread MarkS

On 06/02/2012 12:34, ant wrote:

Hi,

On 06.02.2012 13:13, ciprian niculescu wrote:

What is the significance of the colors in the Deep Diff?


Except for the Status row, where green = CT accepted, red = CT
denied, gray = undecided - green background means feature added,
red means feature deleted, yellow means modified, gray means
unchanged. So the colours aren't really an indication of the licence
status.



Do the way is gooing to be deleted or it will stay but only the tags not
edited by a subsequent agreeing user will be deleted?


I don't know. In fact only the first node and the highway tag are
contributions by the undecided user acm.

cheers
ant



The way in question is http://osm.mapki.com/history/way.php?id=41220492



My reading of this document: 
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=11nadDjFQwPXHSiJ_yRDjErDOLO-h6U18qak8mj1I9R4 
 is that it will be deleted (because the changeset that created it was 
by a non-accepting user).


This page (which shows how OSMI gets its colours) also suggets it will 
be deleted: http://wtfe.gryph.de/report/way/41220492



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Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

2011-10-20 Thread MarkS

This is the way to go.

I download the UK from download.geofabrik.de once a week or so. Then use 
osmosis to divide the UK extract up into the smaller regions as required.


In my case I use poly files (derived from the UK region boundary 
relations) to tell osmosis which regions I want.


Mark S


On 20/10/2011 04:01, Toby Murray wrote:

If you are needing that much data I would strongly recommend starting
off with an extract of the whole country and then trim out what you
need using osmosis. Extract providers can be found here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet#Country_and_area_extracts

And osmosis docs on trimming an extract are here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/Detailed_Usage#Area_Filtering_Tasks

Toby


On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Mickbare...@tpg.com.au  wrote:

I have been struggling to get a largish chunk of open street map
covering an area from the Isles of Scilly in the south west to Bristol
in the north east using commands like:
wget -t 0
http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/xapi?map[bbox=-6.41,49.85,-1.68,51.56]
-O souwest.osm

but all I can get is an error - 'connection reset by peer' or 'timeout'

I also tried:
wget -t 0
http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?relation[bbox=-6,49.8,-1.0,51.6][natural=*]
-O souwest-relation-natural.osm

but this required dozens of individual transaction to get results
osmosis refused to read.

am I biting off more than the server can chew or using the wrong
procedure?

could some kind soul point me in the right direction

mick

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Re: [Talk-GB] Relation for M5?

2011-10-08 Thread MarkS


Looking at the wiki (route=road) it seems to suggest a relation can be 
used here.


However, it stikes me that the relation should be more than just the 
roads without a role. The wiki suggests the road itself would have a 
forward/backward role, and that link roads should be in the relation 
(the link roads are still motorway standard and are referred to as M5 
link roads).  I'd have also thought that in the ideal world the 
junctions and services would be in the relation as well.  That way you 
can get everything to do with the M5 and create things such as a line 
diagram showing the M5 and all its junctions (which would be hard to do 
without a relation).




Mark S



PS: I have to declare an interest here in that I might have touched this 
in the past to complete an initial partial relation.









On 08/10/2011 10:35, Dave F. wrote:

Hi

Anyone know why has the M5 motorway got a route relation dedicated to it?

Route relations are meant to represent, err... routes taken by people
that transverse multiple different ways; such as bus cycle etc  not
just a 'collection' of things.

This has lead to tag duplication which can never be a good thing.

Dave F.




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Re: [Talk-GB] Relation for M5?

2011-10-08 Thread MarkS

Maybe the wiki should be updated ?

However, I think route relations are quite extensive across the UK. I 
first came across them on the A1 but I'm fairly confident lots of other 
roads have them on.  I'm a fan of consistency so if we remove the M5 one 
then we should remove the others as well.  This would make the UK more 
consistent (within the UK) and would ensure people don't have an example 
to copy from.


As an aside: I've seen some external sites link to the relations. I've 
seen things saying this shouldn't be done, but that hasn't stopped 
people doing it in practice. Deleting the relations would break those links.





On 08/10/2011 15:42, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

Mark S wrote:

  Looking at the wiki (route=road) it seems to suggest a relation can
  be used here.

Road route relations are useful in the US, and some other countries, where a
section of road can belong to two routes.

In the UK, each road can only belong to one route (i.e. an unambiguous ref=
tag). There is no need for road route relations; the M5 motorway is more
easily defined as all ways within the UK bounding box with the tags
highway=motorway* and ref=M5. Consequently we don't use road route
relations in the UK.

cheers
Richard




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Re: [Talk-GB] C roads

2011-05-20 Thread MarkS
Sometimes though the reference is in general use even if it isn't 
signposted. In this case having it on the renderers might be useful.


For example: we have a C road near us. On the ground the road looks like 
a single road, but in reality it is made up of series of roads with 
around 6 individual names.  For simplicity therefore lots of local 
publications (magazines, political flyers, local websites) just use the 
C reference.


Having the reference on renderers is therfore useful.

That said I've seen a mapdust error that the reference wasn't signposted.





On 18/05/2011 11:03, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

I note an increasing number of roads tagged with ref=Cnumber:

http://osm.org/go/euF7qf93-
http://osm.org/go/eu6CM0IS-
etc.

Leaving aside for now the question of sourcing, I feel a little uneasy
about these being rendered on the map. Anyone using the map as, well, a
navigational aid will think turn left onto the C94... oh... hang on...
what C94?.

So if we are to have such arcana in the database, and experience
suggests you can't actually stop people adding arcana to OSM (I guess
that's one of our strengths ;) ), it would be helpful to have some way
of tagging this ref is not actually signed. That way, renderers and
routers could choose not to show refs which aren't helpful for their
audience. Something like ref:signed=no would work.

Any thoughts?

cheers
Richard




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Re: [Talk-GB] On footpaths

2011-05-04 Thread MarkS

On 04/05/2011 14:13, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

Hello Peter,

I would say the most important thing with official rights of way is to
tag them with designation=public_footpath, public_bridleway,
public_byway or restricted_byway (as appropriate). The designation tag
is AFAIK generally regarded these days as the most definitive indication
of rights of way status. Freemap (free-map.org.uk) will only render
paths with a designation tag in colour; all other paths are rendered as
black lines - but more importantly it makes the data unambiguous.

I agree that designation is the most important bit. The rest of the tags 
are too variable to give a consistent message.


There seems to be agreement as to what the desingation tag means and 
what the possible values are, even if it isn't (wasn't?) used in many 
places.



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Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Thread MarkS

On 16/03/2011 19:31, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

Richard Bullock wrote:

Do we *really* need to be tagging national speed limits on individual
ways?
E.g. the vast majority of roads ought to be one of;
*residential roads subject to 30mph
*rural roads subject to NSL
Perhaps we could tag the ones that differ from the above - and let
post-processors add national defaults as necessary?


Spot on.

cheers
Richard



I use to think this but here in North Hampshire they've been scattering 
speed limits all over the place and to settle on a default would be 
quite hard. For example none of the single carriage way A-roads near me 
have the national speed limit on them (rural or not).


The advantage of a tag on each way (whatever it might be) is that I know 
what the speed limit on that road is; no tag could easily mean it just 
hasn't been surveyed.



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Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way

2009-08-18 Thread MarkS
James Davis wrote:
 Nick Whitelegg wrote:
 

 
 We may be underestimating the intertwined nature of the definitive map
 /statement and OS data.
 

Here in Hampshire the council are actually quite good. The definitive 
maps are all online (and clearly say OS copyright on them). In addition 
the footpaths themselves are clearly labelled.

I have though recently come across the Definitive Statements 
(http://www3.hants.gov.uk/row/locating-row/definitive-statement.htm). 
These are just text descriptions of the route. They are very detailed so 
can't have been derieved by just tracing over an OS map, so there might 
be a chance we can use these. I'll probably contact them when I get a 
chance and ask.


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Re: [OSM-talk] is_in and similar tags

2009-07-28 Thread MarkS
John Smith wrote:
 
 --- On Tue, 28/7/09, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote:
 
 Admin boundaries are the new way of doing this. The is_in
 tag was the early way of trying to show a hierarchy of admin
 areas.
 
 Ok, so is_in is redundant.
 
 There was talk on the dev list about removing a bunch of tiger tags from 
 nodes. Should other tags also be removed, like is_in that are no longer 
 needed?

We need to be careful about removing tags because it could cause 
renderers to fail (or at least not work as expected). For example, I 
think the is_in tag is added after the place name in mkgmap when 
creating the city POIs.

Maybe the solution is to have a list of depreciated tags and maybe give 
people a year or two to stop using them before they get removed.


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Re: [OSM-talk] is_in and similar tags

2009-07-28 Thread MarkS
John Smith wrote:
 --- On Tue, 28/7/09, MarkS o...@redcake.co.uk wrote:
 We need to be careful about removing tags because it could
 cause 
 renderers to fail (or at least not work as expected). For
 example, I 
 think the is_in tag is added after the place name in mkgmap
 when 
 creating the city POIs.
 
 That's fine for existing correct information, what about incorrect or missing 
 ones? :)
 
 How's this for consistency, all of these describe various suburbs of Sydney...
 
 is_in = New South Wales,Australia
 name = Surry Hills
 place = suburb
 
 is_in = Australia, NSW, New South Wales, Sydney, Eastern Suburbs
 name = Elizabeth Bay
 place = suburb
 postal_code = 2011
 
 is_in = Australia, NSW, New South Wales, Sydney
 name = Woolloomooloo
 place = suburb
 
 is_in = Australia, NSW, New South Wales, Sydney, Eastern Suburbs, resort towns
 name = Bondi Beach
 place = suburb
 
 is_in = Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
 name = Mascot
 place = suburb

I agree we have a problem and this looks very inconsistent. I like 
information to be consistent and held only once. The example shows that 
having a field where you can enter almost anything does result in a 
variety of inconsistent entries.

I'm not against getting rid of is_in, I just think we need to manage the 
change over a fair period of time to give the renderers a chance to 
catch up.


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