<html><head></head><body>Playing devil's advocate here.<br><br>But how many objects are there?<br><br>By their very nature I image they are concentrated in certain areas, such as parks?<br><br>Would it be as easy to simply use the data as survey points, that way you would capture not only the barbecue object, but also associated picnic tables, bins and paths to route to them?<br><br>Phil (trigpoint) <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 October 2018 11:48:15 BST, Mike N <niceman@att.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 10/10/2018 3:37 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">In the couple of imports that I curate, I leave external ID's in OSM, to <br>give me a quick search for the object that I previously imported. (I can <br>then check that the user that last modified the object was the import.) <br>If the object has been changed in the external database, and is <br>unmodified since the last import, I can skip a manual conflation step, <br>and simply apply any changes and present the modified object for review.<br><br>The ID's would be useless in a 'one time only' import, but I attempt to <br>keep the import up to date as new versions of the external data appear.<br></blockquote><br> As the OSM community grows in the region containing a curated <br>dataset, use cases must be managed:<br> OSM user adds a new object they observe.<br> OSM user adds a duplicate object without first checking for an <br>existing object.<br> OSM user removes an object they observe is no longer there.<br><br> It all requires complete conflation, just as if there had been no <br>external IDs in the database.<hr>Imports mailing list<br>Imports@openstreetmap.org<br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>