3) Why people intentionally destroy ids, and whether there are better ways of achieving their goals?
(I seem to recall someone explaining that sometimes objects are deleted and recreated in order to discard the change history, particularly for large relations.) It would definitely be valuable to have the identifiers be more persistent. I've been linking to some from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Keefe_Rail_Trail . I believe Richard F has made comments in the past that we shouldn't do this, and we should have explicit persistent identifiers instead, but there is no support for that yet. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
