On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:55 PM, John Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 8 June 2010 12:46, Anthony <<a href="mailto:osm@inbox.org">osm@inbox.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> How else are you going to describe what your object is? I don't see a<br>
> uuid:lamp_post in your list of examples. I guess that would be,<br>
> uuid:man_made? I don't think many people are going to figure that out. In<br>
> fact, I can't even really figure it out.<br>
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</div>If I had all the details nutted out this wouldn't still be a proposal :)<br>
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In your next email you suggest they are highway tags, so uuid:highway=*<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I just think it'd be a lot easier to say uuid=*, uuid_type=lamp post. Because uuid:highway=* is incredibly non-intuitive. Of course, that doesn't work because then you can't have multiple uuids on a single object without creating relations or unnecessarily duplicating objects. The OSM database doesn't readily support arrays of structured data.<br>
<br>On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:01 PM, John
Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
> If someone needed to add a description can't they just use the
note=*<br>
> tag? Which then makes it a display issue.<br><br>No, because there's no easy way to tie the note to the the uuid. What if you want two notes, one of which is a note for uuid:building and one of which is a note for uuid:operator? Again, can't do it easily in OSM, because the OSM database doesn't readily support arrays of structured data.<br>