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

[Pavel Machek]

On Sat 2017-05-13 11:06:25, michael spreng wrote:
> 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.

We want to update data from the import in the future, so this kind of id is ok.
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