2009/11/15 Anthony <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM, andrzej zaborowski <[email protected]> wrote: >> I agree with >> Anthony that these tags are useless *except* this one tag, the Id *is* >> useful, please don't remove it. > > What's useful about it? Or to ask the question a different way, what > is the tag supposed to mean?
It means that this way's Id in that other dataset there is XYZ. Hopefully we will soon have a better dataset and more keeping-up-to-date-power than that dataset and it will be up to them to keep up with us, for now they have more current data and if we ever want to bulk update our data we will need this info. Also, maybe I'm too excited about this idea called Linked Data ([1]), but even even if we don't want to update, I think it's a piece of info that isn't found anywhere else and would be cool to keep. > > When you merge two TIGER ways which id do you keep? Or should you > keep them both (separated by a semicolon)? The one from which you take the name or whatever logically preserves the "identity". (Possibly none) Cheers 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
