[OSM-talk] Extending the 'geo:' uri scheme: Adding parameter 'osmid'

[Andy Townsend]

On 09/01/2023 20:17, Snusmumriken wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-01-09 at 08:21 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> You seem unwilling to understand that defining a way to refer to ids
>> will cause social pressure not to change ids,
> Is there actually evidence that would corroborate this claim?

There have definitely been complaints to the DWG when people "resurrect" 
old long-deleted nodes, or exhibit "unusual mapping behaviour" such as 
never deleting any nodes, and always re-using them in some other 
feature.  There have also been complaints about changes to objects that 
people consider "special" such as https://osm.mapki.com/history/node/1 
and, er, https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/69#map=17/48.06733/12.86258 .

I'm not saying those complaints are defensible, but they do occur.

Best Regards,

Andy