[OSM-talk] Proposal superseded_by tag for ID stabilisation

[Steve Bennett]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Gregor Horvath <gregor at ediwo.com> wrote:
> I am not a native English speaker, so if new_id is better than
> superseded_by than I vote for new_id.
>
> Regarding the added semantics I am very cautious. Because it will be
> impossible to model all semantics of ID meaning changes that possibly
> exist.
> I would prefer to stick with the simplest possible solution and that is
> provide a dirt simple replacement link for a deleted (for whatever
> reason) object.

Yeah, my thinking was "new" is a less specific, more flexible term
than "superseded by", which is quite precise in meaning.

Steve