On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:27:00PM +0200, ksg wrote: > > In Austria and the adjacent Bavarian Alps of Germany exist a rather > elaborated hierarchical index of caves (Österreichisches Höhlen Verzeichnis > (ÖHV) = Austrian Cave Index) - > http://hoehle.org/downloads/SD_10_Handbuch.pdf. The register is based on > four main hydrographic units with three level subdivisions, based mainly on > river basins and mountain regions. See the english abstract that follows the > table of contents. It should be discussed in advance, if the national speleo > associations will permit using data from the cave indexes or even if they > have an interest in sharing specific information with OSM.
interesting reading. Apparently such ids are already used in OSM (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1049851511). Don't think such a short numeric id can be copyrighted in any way but of course copying data from copyrighted sources requires permission and licence compatibility. Richard _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging