Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal superseded_by tag for ID stabilisation

2011-08-05 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Gregor Horvath gre...@ediwo.com wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal superseded_by tag for ID stabilisation

2011-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
Steve Bennett wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal superseded_by tag for ID stabilisation

2011-08-04 Thread Gregor Horvath
Hi, I have thought through this again and think we should keep it simple and stupid (KISS): Am Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:36:38 +0200 schrieb Gregor Horvath gre...@ediwo.com: ** splitting of ways (old ID would then point to only half) A split to A,B: A.superseded_by = B A does not get

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal superseded_by tag for ID stabilisation

2011-08-04 Thread Gregor Horvath
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.

[OSM-talk] Proposal superseded_by tag for ID stabilisation

2011-08-03 Thread Gregor Horvath
Hi, critique welcome: Proposal superseded_by tag -- OSM ID's do not describe physical objects but geometrical objects on a map. If an a geometrical object supersedes another one with a different ID it should be possible to tag this relationship for some better

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal superseded_by tag for ID stabilisation

2011-08-03 Thread Claus Stadler
Hi, I must say wow, as I did not expect my mail to trigger such a long discussion, that even already brings up proposals. I was busy with some tasks and therefore did not reply in the past three days. But its great to see such response ;) So as it was pointed out multiple times already,

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal superseded_by tag for ID stabilisation

2011-08-03 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Gregor Horvath gre...@ediwo.com wrote: ** re-mapping of stuff in the course of the license change   - re-structuring of relations   - 0.7 area data type (lots of existing areas get a new ID)   superseded_by tag That's an interesting use case - let's say A