2010/6/7 Peter Körner <[email protected]>: > 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
I think they do improve the situation - at least the mapper sees that there is an external reference clued to a certain object. - 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. that's both not acceptable IMHO, espescially deleting tags the editor doesn't know of is completely contradictory to the OSM principle of free form tagging. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
