Is there any reason against using a custom tag as a linking key? e.g. some_import_object_id=123456
Then when you need to update the data, you can match the key in OSM with the key in the source data. On 19 July 2020 11:21:04 pm AEST, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 22:28, Greg Dutkowski <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> Hi, >> Thanks for everyone's input. >> Sebastien best understood what I am trying to do. >> It seems inefficient for local government to make their data open and >then >> hope the OSM community translates it to OSM tagging. >> >Better for local government to put their data directly into OSM and >> maintain a two way link to their data. >> > >While that is certainly welcome, I would never have an expectation of >it. I >expectat that all public funded works are made open without >restrictions on >use (of course subject to privacy concerns or other special >considerations) >so at least the OSM community can use it if we like, anything above and >beyond this is a welcome contribution. > >If a local government is thinking about this, I'd just say engage with >us >so we can all work together. > > >> Examples and tools from anyone who is trying to keep external data in >> sync with OSM will be most useful. >> > >There are some conflation tools at >https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Conflation but they appear >to >all need a lot of coding to get up and running.
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