[OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

[Henning Scholland]

Am 03.05.2013 23:08, schrieb andrzej zaborowski:
> On 3 May 2013 22:58, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>> On 03.05.2013 22:12, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
>>> The consensus was that--at least for place relations which are the
>>> target of the said property--OSM relation IDs are stable enough and any
>>> changes in IDs can be easily rectified. Wikidata is a wiki after all.
>> I am less concerned about the Wikidata side - if they make a bad judgement
>> then it is their mess to clean up. I am however concerned that if more
>> people simply assume that the status quo is there to stay ("IDs are stable
>> enough"), this will put pressure on *us* and limit our flexibility in the
>> future.
> The OSMF has sent a pretty strong message saying that object IDs are
> stable enough to base impactful legal decisions on them.  It will look
> silly for them to go back to the stance that IDs aren't stable after
> all.
>
>
There are two sides of stable. Of course a node created with id 123 will 
always have id 123. But the tags of the node could change. So node 123 
could be a restaurant in v1 and in v2 a node in a highway. So if you 
have a restaurant-DB pointing to node 123 would fail

Henning