On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:11:40AM +0100, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: > Elena of Valhalla schrieb: > > Is there something wrong with some postcode areas between France and > > Germany? > > > > http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=addresses&lon=5.81038&lat=44.04829&zoom=6 > > > > this is the first time i've opened the OSM inspector, so I have no > > clue what could be going on > > That's a known shortcoming of the method OSM inspector uses to connect > postcode areas. Since it just uses a "same number" scheme to identify > address nodes belonging to the same PC area, it sometimes connects > unrelated PC areas in different countries, because the numbers are the same.
Close, but not quite correct. :-) The OSM Inspector uses the combination of addr:postcode and addr:country for making those areas. So if people in two countries tag the same postcode and don't tag the addr:country at all, they get thrown together into one area. If at least one uses addr:country=(lower-case iso-country-code), the problem goes away. This is still a shortcoming of the OSM Inspector because it should at least try to use the country borders or something to define the default for addr:country. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
