[OSM-talk] Id stability

John F. Eldredge john at jfeldredge.com
Tue Aug 2 17:26:54 BST 2011


straup <straup at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not going to pretend to understand the guts of the OSM code well 
> enough to suggest that supersedes/superseded_by would be easy to 
> implement or not but it's always seemed like a useful approach to me.
This supersedes / is superseded by approach would work, although there would need to be provision for a database object to supersede multiple objects (a merge operation) or be superseded by several objects (a split operation).

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