[Imports] [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

[Glen Barnes]

Is it maybe time that OSM looked at implementing some form of machine tags? OSM tags are currently machine tags in a technical sense but I'm wondering if there is a building need to add metadata to an object less describes what the object is but how it relates to other objects on the internet. Of course we could just put it back on the data providers to link to the OSM ID's but having reciprocal links makes the data a hell of a lot more useful.

Glen  


On 14/12/2012, at 8:23 AM, Robert Coup <robert at coup.net.nz> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Any update strategy has to
> be able to handle the case where objects are created in OSM without the IDs
> or the IDs get broken in OSM because they can't be verified. Because
> anything you do has to handle the case of no IDs, what's the point of them?
> 
> As a strawman "some houses don't have addresses, therefore the postal service shouldn't use them anywhere" 
> 
> Because it makes it easier? Faster? Less reviews? Easier to query/link data with external systems?
> 
> In New Zealand every road has a SUFI (govt-speak for an ID) - which is used in roading, statistical, electoral, addressing, local govt, and a bunch of other places. Makes sense for OSM to include that key where we can, since it's linkable to other datasets/services.
> 
> 
> Lots of people include IDs because they think they might be useful but very
> seldom are they actually used.
> 
> Agreed - if there's no update strategy and the ID is not enforced/mandated/used/published by the source organisation, then they're definitely pointless.
>  
> Rob :)
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