Hi Lodewijk, hi Kilian, hi all, I support Kilian's statement with practical reasons. It is often difficult to find certain monuments, even though they have a unique number, if you cant compare them unambiguously with other lists containig additional information.
In Austria some districts have been merged this year, we are working on that (it mainly influences the display of monuments on maps). Kind regards Beppo
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Datum: Wed, 23 May 2012 16:07:55 +0200 Von: Kilian Kluge kilian@k-kluge.de An: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] about identifiers
Hi Lodewijk, Hi all,
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Lodewijk lodewijk@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
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