Trevor, You can place a tag on the lane if you want: is_in:village=Woodford
The 'Place Boundary' would seem to be the popular way of doing this - by tagging the village as a community (boundary=administrative, admin_level=10). Relationships don't seem to be a workable solution. Nick. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Trevor Hook <[email protected]> wrote: > I was mapping some footpaths yesterday and came across a situation which I > hadn't come across before and which lead me to think about how openstreetmap > actually works. > > http://osm.org/go/eu6XfNE9-- > > I mapped the footpath coming from the East between the river and the village > of Woodford and heading out to the South. > > This footpath briefly follows the route of the a residential road named > Church Street which is part of the village. > > My question is; how does Openstreet map know the lane is part of the > village? I know my map is incomplete because I didn't map the connecting > roads between Church Street and the main road, which itself is not connected > to the POI Woodford. If I wanted to find a Church Street in Woodford how > would openstreetmap (or any map based of OSM data) be able to process that > request. > > Checking OSM, I've never seen a place name connected in anyway to a street. > > I can see 3 possible anwsers. > 1) Geographical Proximity - what happens when a road is the same distance > between 2+ place names > 2) A Relationship - I've looked in the wiki but didn't find anything > appropriate for roads and place names, although it difficult to find stuff > in the wiki unless I already know the name of the thing I'm looking for. > 3) Place Boundaries - Drawing a village boundary and everything inside is > part of that village, I never done that but it would seem logical > > Should I be placing some sort of relationship/boundary on these roads? > > Thanks > Trevor _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
