Remember location and use the closest result?
2014-03-21 21:57 GMT+01:00 Sachin Dole <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > I am fairly new to OSM and am figuring out how to use this in my > application. I want to be able to add additional metadata to certain places > such as hotels, airports, car rental agencies etc. I am planning to do this > additional metadata in my own database. However, I read on this > page<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Permanent_ID> that > the OSM ID is not a permanent id for a place in the map. That page > recommends to search on tags and then if that search returns more than one > item, then figure out which one is relevant. If I am doing this live in a > web app, I wont be able to do this. So, the question is how do I make > permanent links to OSM map places in my database so I can enrich the > metadata for myself? > > You might ask if I can instead add the metadata directly to OSM - I could > do that, but what if my metadata is not really relevant to the general > community? I dont want to end up polluting OSM tags with something that > wont make sense to the rest of the world. > > Thank you in advance! > Sachin Dole > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > >
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