[Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

[Apollinaris Schoell]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
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> So, the guys that actually went out and were nice enough to collect this
> TIGER data and share it with us have names for all these things: TLIDs.
> That's a pretty concrete, real-world meaning to some people.
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Not in osm context. DB id from an external DB are useless in osm. any can
edit them. ways are merged and split over time many of them don't reflect
any link to the tiger tlid anymore. it's just filling the planet files.
I't is nice to have such a reference on the initial import but there is no
use to keep them after edits.
If we had changesets at the time it was imported then this is the place to
add these tags. there they are readonly and don't fill the planet with
useless info
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