Hi Lodewijk, Hi all,
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> wrote:
If the municipality key works in one country, it
doesn't have to work in
another. I suggest we use whatever system works best for your country - and
implement that.
I hope that it didn't sound like I was suggesting anything but that.
My goal was just to point out that own identifiers made from scratch
that don't include the original IDs and reflect the structure those
IDs are assigned will bring more trouble than good in the long run.
Also merging municipalities are a big pain, but
I'm sure
there's a way to work around that too (for example setting up a
renaming/redirect table).
In the case of Germany, this wouldn't be that big of an issue, since
the changes in the Gemeindekennziffer scheme are clearly communicated.
(Also, the prefixed IDs don't show up on Wikipedia or Commons.)
Kilian