<div class="gmail_quote">2012/9/7 Dave Sutter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sutter@intransix.com" target="_blank">sutter@intransix.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I was thinking of using the ref tag as the publicly used term for the<br>
entity. For example, there is a bus route 110 for SamTrans (San Mateo<br>
county, California). I imagine the ref for this route is 110. There<br>
could be some added information to specify this is a bus route for<br>
SamTrans, as opposed to a room number in some academic building or an<br>
exit on a freeway.<br>
<br>
Perhaps tags such as ref:type = Bus Route, and ref:scope = SamTrans<br>
<br>
The external database would also specify the same reference, and then<br>
the two could be matched.<br></blockquote><div><br>But if you combine several already existing tags, like 'ref=38' and 'operator=SamTrans' then that should be good enough. If you add a website=*, there shouldn't be a chance that there is going to be duplicate elements somewhere in the database.<br>
<br>Janko<br></div></div>