Jan 2, 2023, 21:59 by ajt1...@gmail.com: > On 02/01/2023 20:44, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: > >> way/node/relation ids in OSM are unstable, not promised to be stable and >> anything relying on their stability can break at any point >> > Unfortunately, that sort of "black and white" answer doesn't really answer > the question of whether it's useful to link to OSM data like that. > It is often useful, but we should try to avoid implying that this ids will stay stable forever. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1325892214 works well as link for such cases, making some official uri scheme is implying things that we should not be implying. > It's certainly possible (as I've said in that discussion) to use OSM IDs as > "stable enough to do real work with" - I do it all the time. > I also do this, but without expectations of id stability.
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