[Imports] Importing fuel stations in UK and future similar imports

[michael spreng]

On 12/05/17 18:08, Ilya Zverev wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> First, I was amazed at the response. Thanks for constructive feedback, which I answer below, and no thanks for toxic responses, including asking for money (what money? We — as in maps.me — get none out of this) and imposing impossible restrictions (manually investigate context for each of thousands of points?). No import is perfect, and I cannot make this one too good for you. But it is pretty okay to me.
> 
> * "The general view seems to be against IDs like this": what has happened with the principle "any tags you like"? Did we saturate the key space and not accepting new keys anymore? Can I read that "general view" documented anywhere? The "ref:navads_shell" key is the only one that is not verifiable on the ground, and is clearly added so the further updates do not have to rely on matching.
> 
This is the desire not to be the database of a closed circle. This id is
only meaningful to that company. The rule this falls under would be the
"on the ground" rule probably. Anyway, I feel like some public ids are
ok, like the post codes, but private ones are a clear no like this
navads_shell. And using it for updating might not work as expected. For
example a copy of the fuel station for the competitor close by. The one
editing doesn't know what this id is, so it remains on the copied fuel
station. It's better to do the matching again.

Or convince them to display this id easily accessible at each station :)

Michael