d'oh, the annoying thing is, I've used is_in before, just never in the context of a road and so I didn't even think of that.
Thanks Nick Trevor On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Nick Austin <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
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