On 2020-08-13 12:25, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 16:56, SK53 <sk53....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OpenRoads from the Ordnance Survey contains a field containing the toid for
>> the street name. I wonder if we should include these alongside usrn & uprn.
>> They may be more useful than either for gathering complex roads which share
>> a name.
>
> I'd tend to see the TOIDs are just an internal ID used in OS MasterMap
> and not something that there's much value in adding to OSM.
That is apparently not how OS are positioning TOIDs, according to
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOID
TOIDs are intended to be persistent, and aimed at integration between
databases. OSM would be one such database, wouldn't it?
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