On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: > I'm not sure we really want to encourage the use of our database as a > storage space for third party identifiers like that. It could get rather > out of hand if everybody else wants to attach their own IDs to our data. >
If someone donates a good chunk of good data to osm then they are also part of the solution. I think that it makes sense to allow people who are maintaining some data to add in IDs for better maintenance. I doubt that the situation where everyone needs to add IDs to everyone else's data will ever occur. mike
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