On 7 June 2010 18:26, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > There is a lot of ID tags in the database and they seem to be a lot > more stable than OSM IDs. > > It might do so, but it's horribly inefficient as a result of needing > to do searches across areas, and can't cope with an occupant such as a > business moving across town without an even more inefficient brute > force search which may not work if the tags fix the name due to > spelling mistakes etc etc etc. >
Also it doesn't cover a new thought I had on the subject, being able to assign unique IDs in the field without needing to connect to the main OSM DB to get a new ID, this might be useful in emergency situations where you need to tag a lot of things in tandem with a group in very short order and being able to easily share and modify that information with only LAN connectivity. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
