John Smith schrieb: > Currently I've been making a proposal for OSM to adopt an UUID tagging > scheme so that third parties wishing to directly refer to OSM objects > can do so without the current problems of using internal database > reference IDs vanishing in future. I don't think that your uuid-tags will be more stable either - they are subject to thousands of editors that will sometimes delete tags they don't know or that won't take over those tags to the ways when they create polys for them.
About explicit editor support: I disapprove proposals that won't work without explicit editor support (eg. because they are too complex to handle in a manual fashion). > So far I've been toying with some proof of concept stuff to establish > what works and what doesn't, so far I've coded some scripts to > generate and upload UUIDs automatically on OSM objects Doing sth. automatically in osm is always a bad idea, especially if the thing you're trying to do is still in a proposal state -- so please do not run it agaianst the main api as long as it's not approved by a wide-enough audience. I like Tim's Query-to-map [1] which accomplishes this task already and doesn't rely on any extra tagging, by combining bbox+[ref|name] -- tags that don't vanish as fast as some mysterious uuid tag. Peter [1] <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Query-to-map> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
