Hi Lodewijk, hi Kilian, hi all, I support Kilian's statement with practical reasons. It is often difficult to find certain monuments, even though they have a unique number, if you cant compare them unambiguously with other lists containig additional information.
In Austria some districts have been merged this year, we are working on that (it mainly influences the display of monuments on maps). Kind regards Beppo -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 23 May 2012 16:07:55 +0200 > Von: Kilian Kluge <[email protected]> > An: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition > <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] about identifiers > Hi Lodewijk, Hi all, > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Lodewijk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > If the municipality key works in one country, it doesn't have to work in > > another. I suggest we use whatever system works best for your country - > and > > implement that. > > I hope that it didn't sound like I was suggesting anything but that. > My goal was just to point out that own identifiers made from scratch > that don't include the original IDs and reflect the structure those > IDs are assigned will bring more trouble than good in the long run. > > > Also merging municipalities are a big pain, but I'm sure > > there's a way to work around that too (for example setting up a > > renaming/redirect table). > > In the case of Germany, this wouldn't be that big of an issue, since > the changes in the Gemeindekennziffer scheme are clearly communicated. > (Also, the prefixed IDs don't show up on Wikipedia or Commons.) > > Kilian > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu -- NEU: FreePhone 3-fach-Flat mit kostenlosem Smartphone! Jetzt informieren: http://mobile.1und1.de/?ac=OM.PW.PW003K20328T7073a _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
