[talk-au] Working with local government

David Wales daviewales at disroot.org
Mon Jul 20 02:33:17 UTC 2020


Is there any reason against using a custom tag as a linking key?

e.g. some_import_object_id=123456

Then when you need to update the data, you can match the key in OSM with the key in the source data.

On 19 July 2020 11:21:04 pm AEST, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 22:28, Greg Dutkowski <greg.dutkowski at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Thanks for everyone's input.
>> Sebastien best understood what I am trying to do.
>> It seems inefficient for local government to make their data open and
>then
>> hope the OSM community translates it to OSM tagging.
>>
>Better for local government to put their data directly into OSM and
>> maintain a two way link to their data.
>>
>
>While that is certainly welcome, I would never have an expectation of
>it. I
>expectat that all public funded works are made open without
>restrictions on
>use (of course subject to privacy concerns or other special
>considerations)
>so at least the OSM community can use it if we like, anything above and
>beyond this is a welcome contribution.
>
>If a local government is thinking about this, I'd just say engage with
>us
>so we can all work together.
>
>
>> Examples and tools from anyone who is trying to keep external data in
>> sync with OSM will be most useful.
>>
>
>There are some conflation tools at
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Conflation but they appear
>to
>all need a lot of coding to get up and running.
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