On Jan 18, 2008 3:42 PM, Karl Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have any particular objections against your proposal (although it is > somewhat complex), but I still think geographic boundaries are the way to > go. Which do you think will happen first: Creation of boundaries and a way > to quickly query a point against them (or rather the reverse: given a point, > return the boundaries), or tagging of nearly every object in the database > with an is_in tag?
FWIW, with the coastline checker being basically done, I'm considering applying the same process to boundaries, a boundary checker. As a side-effect it will produce a shapefile of all the boundaries, which can be efficiently queried for is_in-ness... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
