This is supremely confusing to Nominatim, which will look for a nearby place=* node to attach to if something is not inside an administrative boundary leading to situations where a city that has nothing to do with Des Moines, IA (but still in Des Moines County) will be marked as a suburb of Des Moines city.
So yes, we should change these to be more descriptive. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]>wrote: > I've seen a number of ways where tiger:county was changed to is_in, leading > to values like is_in=Orange, FL for Orange County, Florida. This seems less > than ideal and sometimes misleading: does is_in=Des Moines, IA mean that > it's in the city of Des Moines or in Des Moines County, which is in the far > corner of the state? Is there any reason not to change these to > is_in:county?
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