Hi, Andy Allan wrote: > No, it's a distraction from the real problem, which is that merging > datasets is fundamentally hard, and needs to be approached with > sophistication and fuzzy location-based matching (e.g. feature church, > near this point, name something close to "all saint(')s").
+1. It gets even more difficult for relations but people are actually starting to use the /browse/relation/xyz URL as a permalink - lots of times on the Wiki, but also externally. If I were just a little bit more evil than I actually am, I'd make it a habit to delete and re-create a few relations every day just to drive home the message that IDs are not permanent. But I can offer them no alternative, currently. > Has anyone experienced sync working? I know a lot of people have > imported with external IDs but I suspect that it's not going to work > when they actually come to updating one way or the other. I think it has been successfully used in re-importing/updating opengeodb data in Germany and maybe other parts of Europe. But these were just place nodes. They even had a special tag, openGeoDB:auto_update, that would list which tags would be eligible for later sync. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev