[Imports] [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

[Alex Barth]

Hi Paul -

On Dec 10, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Any future work with the data after it's imported will have to handle
> buildings without IDs. I included IDs in two of my imports and have found
> them useless. I think that without a clear plan to use them (i.e. one with
> code) you shouldn't be including government department specific metadata
> like this.

How specifically did you find them useless? I mean was it just that to your knowledge nobody's using them or is there something inherently broken in the case of your imports (e. g. those id's change outside of OSM and hence can't be used as reference).

Alex Barth
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