Met vriendelijke groeten, Best regards, Ben Abelshausen
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Glenn Plas <gl...@byte-consult.be> wrote: > On 2013-10-21 20:57, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 08:05:50PM +0200, Ben Abelshausen wrote: >> >>> I'm also wondering if we want to add some kind of reference to >>>> the ID from CRAB. >>>> >>> I'm not in favour of keeping external id's in OSM, the address itself >>> should be the id and you cannot rely on it staying on the map because >>> anyone can remove it. >>> >> I was just thinking about how to keep in sync with their database, >> and to try and find out which points are mapped and which are not. >> >> I'm also considering trying to do a full import and merging >> existing nodes / houses with their data and things like that. I >> would actually like to mostly automate importing updates comming >> from them. I think that at some point we will at least need a way >> to see see the difference between the 2, and having a direct >> relation betweem them could make things easier. >> > > Yup, you'll need a foreign key if you want to manage that automatically. > I aggree. If not you could endup merging the same stuff all over again. > Or worse, delete old nodes and create new ones, enlarging the changesets. > > But I would caution for doing an automagical full import and merge unless > you're doing only for the referenced stuff, but new data and merged I would > stll want to review it. I've hardly ever had this sort of database > migration work at the first attempt.... > > Now lets hope someone at CRAB isn't planning on doing the same but in the > other direction ;-) , I keep wondering what kind of feedback loop that > would create.... > > Glenn > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-be<https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be> >
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