<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Dave Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@sr71.net">dave@sr71.net</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>So, the guys that actually went out and were nice enough to collect this<br>
TIGER data and share it with us have names for all these things: TLIDs.<br>
That's a pretty concrete, real-world meaning to some people.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not in osm context. DB id from an external DB are useless in osm. any can edit them. ways are merged and split over time many of them don't reflect any link to the tiger tlid anymore. it's just filling the planet files.</div>
<div>I't is nice to have such a reference on the initial import but there is no use to keep them after edits.</div><div>If we had changesets at the time it was imported then this is the place to add these tags. there they are readonly and don't fill the planet with useless info</div>
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