[OSM-talk] capitols

Sebastian Spaeth Sebastian at SSpaeth.de
Thu Jun 14 07:54:55 BST 2007


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Ben Laenen wrote:
>> so what do you do if there happens to be a municipality of texas and
>> a galactical imperium called texas? this is way too ambigious,

> As I mentioned in another discussion some weeks earlier: in a good 
> database one uses ids/primary keys to save those values, this ambiguity 
> is just here because we insist on having the real names in there. And I 
> hope the database for OSM will be changed once to have id's there.
> 
> After all, there are only good things about using id's: the ambiguity 
> would be gone, the database will always be consistent (would someone 
> tag a street in Brussels as "is_in=Brussel" or "is_in=Bruxelles", Dutch 
> and French are both official languages)

All places already have unique id's (the respective node ID), so that is
no issue, you can use it if needed already. The issue is that this is
very unconvenient (what's that 15 digit id of texas again? although that
could be handled on the local editor side), plus that these id's can
change (Oh, I delete that Texas node, or use it for sth different and
create a new one).

spaetz
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