Am Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:55:20 +0200 schrieb Ture Pålsson <t...@lysator.liu.se>:
> 2011/8/2 Gregor Horvath <gre...@ediwo.com>: > > > OSM provides uri's to ID's which are linked to names of > > physical objects. Example: > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1381574156 > > But these objects often make no sense in the real world! Correct. Because all the URI above says is that there is a node with an ID 1381574156. It does not say anything about a physical object at all. And that is a good thing, because actually the node is only a point on a map. Now if this node (point on a map) is replaced with another one by a fellow mapper (for whatever reason), I think it would be a progress if ID 1381574156 points to the new node instead of vanishing. This has absolutely nothing to do with physical objects or OSM to be a database of things. -- Greg _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
