[Imports] Import of Flemish Government data (building footprints and addresses)

[Christoph Hormann]

On Monday 29 October 2018, Kevin Kenny wrote:
> > Note i completely get that many programmers are unfamiliar with the
> > OSM concepts of changesets, object versions etc. and for them it
> > would indeed be more convenient not to have to deal with that and
> > instead retrofit OSM to what they are used to.  But that is not
> > something OSM should accept.

> [...]
> Recall that this is not a hypothetical argument. I have an existing
> workflow that functions for me. [...]

I think you have essentially confirmed my point here.

Again i completely understand you motivation but as said i don't think 
OSM should burden itself with this for the convenience of a few import 
programmers.

And ultimately this is not really a relavant subject for the discussion 
here because adding proprietary IDs is clearly not compatible with the 
verifiability principle so you would need to lobby for abolishing 
verifiability before we could seriously discuss this.

(Ignoring the various accusations of what you imply me to have said but 
which i have not)

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Christoph Hormann
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