<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>But wat is local in the global context of OSM? It seems that, as far as Belgium is concerned, I'm the only one with an interest to keep using them. I do think they add some value, especially in a bilingual context like in Brussels.<br><br></div>But if I'm the only one in the whole (small) country, who am I to try to keep them?<br><br></div>On the one hand it would be relatively easy to keep them up to date automatically in Brussels and semi-automatically Flanders, since we are allowed to use official datasets for integration in these areas.<br><br></div>It seems like the biggest issue the proponents of abolishing aS, is that it's hard to keep them up-to-date, and that is where the situation is different over here and in France. Since France (and Spain and the Netherlands too), have access to address data from cadastre.<br><br></div>On the one hand this means that it becomes possible in these countries to actually add each and every address to OSM. I think that in such case it makes sense to not store city names, postcodes and possibly street names over and over again millions of times.<br><br></div>Polyglot<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-25 17:46 GMT+01:00 Serge Wroclawski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emacsen@gmail.com" target="_blank">emacsen@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It'll be interesting to see how the German community handles this as<br>
an excercise for other communities.<br>
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I think that handling this in a local way is the right move.<br>
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Jo <<a href="mailto:winfixit@gmail.com">winfixit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Sometimes I remove stuff by accident realize it later and instead of going<br>
>> back just replace it, because I did more stuff in that time and don't want<br>
>> to lose my work.<br>
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> If you care about preserving the history of that object, you could do the<br>
> following in JOSM:<br>
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> Create new layer<br>
> Download data around what you deleted<br>
> Merge downloaded layer into working layer<br>
> You'll get a conflict and can retrieve the object by resolving the conflict.<br>
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> Polyglot<br>
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