Hi Steve, Am Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:56:49 +1000 schrieb Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com>:
> In general I think there's some value in what you're describing here, > not just for id stability, but in better understanding the history and > provenance of objects, which helps with attributing authorship. Some > sort of more generic meta-tagging scheme might be good (superseded_by > could easily be interpreted as referring to the actual physical > objects, not the OSM objects), so maybe something like osm:new_id=xxx, > osm:merge_into=xxx etc. I am not a native English speaker, so if new_id is better than superseded_by than I vote for new_id. Regarding the added semantics I am very cautious. Because it will be impossible to model all semantics of ID meaning changes that possibly exist. I would prefer to stick with the simplest possible solution and that is provide a dirt simple replacement link for a deleted (for whatever reason) object. -- Greg _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk