(1) pollution of tags by such keys is irritating (2) people may split, move, delete, edit or copy such tag
wikidata key is slightly better - but requires wikidata entries Jul 20, 2020, 04:33 by [email protected]: > 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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