[talk-au] Working with local government

[Mateusz Konieczny]

(1) pollution of tags by such keys is irritating
(2) people may split, move, delete, edit or copy such tag

wikidata key is slightly better - but requires wikidata entries

Jul 20, 2020, 04:33 by daviewales at disroot.org:

> Is there any reason against using a custom tag as a linking key?
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> e.g. some_import_object_id=123456
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> Then when you need to update the data, you can match the key in OSM with the key in the source data.
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> On 19 July 2020 11:21:04 pm AEST, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 22:28, Greg Dutkowski <>> greg.dutkowski at gmail.com>> > wrote:
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>>> 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. 
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>>> Better for local government to put their data directly into OSM and maintain a two way link to their data.
>>>
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>> 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.
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>> If a local government is thinking about this, I'd just say engage with us so we can all work together.
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>>> Examples and tools from anyone who is trying to keep external data in sync with OSM will be most useful.
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>> 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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