[OSM-talk] Building a free/open reviews community w/ OSM support

Marc Gemis marc.gemis at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 03:19:57 UTC 2016


On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
>> - add an external ID to OSM. This would be analogue to the current wikidata
>> tag.

It's better not to add external IDs to OSM. It would be OK if there is
only 1 project in the world that would do this, but if every pet
project will start doing this ...
Also, in general, there is no way for contributors to verify the IDs
added by third parties, which makes it hard to verify whether they are
still valid.
Furthermore there is no guarantee that someone might remove this tag.
So you will need a fallback method anyway.

So please do not use this method


regards

m



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