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On 29. Oct 2018, at 11:34, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote:

>> More often than not, importers keep an external ID because they think
>> "it might be useful later".
> 
> Again, please provide evidence to support this assertion.


we already have lots and lots of foreign ids in the current data base. Is there 
any case where having these ids has made an update possible or significantly 
easier with these?

I can confirm that for my mapping, having external ids is making editing 
significantly more complex, and often I don’t know how to deal with these when 
I do operations like merging or splitting or even just correcting a brand or 
operator tag.

Cheers, Martin 
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