> On 3 June 2010 05:22, <si...@mungewell.org> wrote: >> What would be the purpose of (say) a 2D barcode displayed in the window? >> I >> mean, you're all ready there.... > > The purpose is to give things a unique ID, the QR code could embed a > very unique ID and then that ID can be used to identify that location > in OSM, rather than trying to use OSM object IDs which may change. > >> What 'we' could do is provide a auto-magic image/QR-Code/DataMatrix >> containing a 'short code URL' to a map of the location displayed in >> OpenStreetMap on the 'data' page for that node. > > The point is people are consistently told OSM IDs shouldn't be > considered as unique as the object could be deleted/merged/whatever > and so the previous ID is no longer valid even if the object exists > with other IDs. >
The 'shortlink' does not describe an object with OSM, it describes a location on the planet (akin to a lat/long). ie: http://osm.org/go/0EEQCvG5-?m http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shortlink Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk