[Imports] Proposed Import - Cache Valley, UT Address Points

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 07:25:30 UTC 2022



sent from a phone

> On 10 Oct 2022, at 20:25, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> What I was trying to say is that without the benefit of experience of
> getting all the way through an import, 2 years of living with it, and
> contemplating an update import, foreign keys seem like they ought to be
> broadly useful.  My impression from the list is that almost no one who
> has that experience thinks so. 


foreign keys are also harmful, at the extreme they may prevent a contributor from performing an update because they do not know how to deal with it, or prevent simplifying things by combining the geometry (if everything is the same except the foreign key).

Cheers Martin 


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