On 8 June 2010 12:46, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not the one who brought up free form text, you are.
This is why this is a proposal and why we are discussing things to brain storm... > Otherwise, we have no basis to maintain the link, and they might as well > just link to the node. That's the whole point of UUIDs, because they want to link to the node, but linking using DB IDs is a bad idea, so I thought using an ID that can be shifted from one object to another might be a better idea. The ID is so you can link to the object without needing to worry about finding the node if it's replaced by an area. > How else are you going to describe what your object is? I don't see a > uuid:lamp_post in your list of examples. I guess that would be, > uuid:man_made? I don't think many people are going to figure that out. In > fact, I can't even really figure it out. If I had all the details nutted out this wouldn't still be a proposal :) In your next email you suggest they are highway tags, so uuid:highway=* _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
