On Tuesday 28 November 2017, Tod Fitch wrote: > > Maybe because OSM does not have the concept of a permanent ID for > feature in the real world so there is no way for other databases to > maintain the linkage.
I have discussed this subject already, please read what i wrote about it in: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2017-October/079126.html and https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2017-November/034219.html as well as in the mail you replied to: > Again my suggestion: Working on better ways to address features in > OSM in a stable way from the outside would be much more productive > IMO that adding more and more external IDs which will never scale on > a level of hundreds of millions of features in the end and which will > create conflicts and ambiguities due to the different concepts of > information behind OSM and wikidata (original research regarding the > physically observable world vs. secondary sources). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
