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Yes you can, but that would be using

> additional data and heuristics

Directly mapping is impossible, so you cant just do a dumb ID-at-time pre-processing step (which is what your comment seems to suggest). You need a more complex pre-processing step that’s capable of understanding the surrounding context the identifier is being used in. A major issue with the flight planing system (as highlighted in the article) is that they attempted to do this heuristic mapping as part of their core processing step, and just assumed the ID wouldn’t be too ambiguous, and certainly wouldn’t repeat.



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