On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:29:25AM +0100, Shaun McDonald wrote:
> Do not use the freeform is_in tag, as it just bloats the data with  
> unnecessary information. It is also very difficult to parse due to its  
> freeform nature. Get a set of country polygons and test to see which  
> one each street is inside of.

The problem with those polyons are that they are not fast - To make
this usable for renderers one needs to apply a lot of optimization
and precomputing.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                         [email protected]          
   
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