[Talk-ca] Own experience with Geobase

[Stefan Monnier]

> - The Geobase segment geometry (ways segmented at each intersection) becomes
> OSM ways. Keeping the original geometry assure the link between Geobase/OSM
> for further updates using the nat_ref. However, in OSM, the rendering is not
> nice because it repeats the street name and ref numbers.

Keeping the nat_ref seems like the right thing to do, indeed, otherwise
merging future updates from GeoBase may turn out to be very painful.
But having so many ways seems a bit problematic to me (although such
segmentation is sometimes needed anyway, e.g. when a street changes its
onewayness).  Couldn't we merge the segments into a single way and then
keep a list of NIDs in nat_ref?

In any case, thanks for your effort, it looks like a good start.


        Stefan