Hi, On 08/30/2014 11:58 PM, Edward Betts wrote: > Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: >> What we have here is a third-party database whose object identifiers we >> add to OSM as tags in order to make linking things easier. >> >> This is something that has often been requested by people but never been >> granted on a large scale because we always said that it would be an >> abuse of our database and our mapper's patience to offload everyone's >> and their dog's linking requirements onto us. > > What about all the references listed in this table? > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ref#Key_variations > > There are 79k instances of the ref:INSEE key in OpenStreetMap. > > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/ref%3AINSEE
As far as I am aware, the external ID situations we currently have are those where the external ID came in with an import (i.e. someone imported schools and they came with a certain tag or so). No practical use has been demonstrated but people like to have them nonetheless, "just in case". I don't know of any instance of automated (or large-scale manual) affixing of external IDs to existing OSM objects, at least none that was discussed. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
