[OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 08:42:18 BST 2009


2009/9/29 Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>:
> A manual redirect tag would never work - about 1% of contributors would bother
> to add it, and even then messing with id numbers by hand is error-prone.
> Rather, if an object is marked as deleted, return its last position and perhaps
> the changeset id that deleted it.  Then with only a small amount of manual effort
> somebody can track down the replacement object.

Wouldn't flickr just download the info once and then cache it on their systems?

That's what they do with OSM maps at least.




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