SDS (<font>Separate Data Store</font>) is a great solution for this problem<br><br>The arhitecture includes one separate server (<a href="https://github.com/geofabrik/sds-server">link to github repository</a>) and a JOSM plugin. With the plugin you can add private tags to existing ways and nodes. The tags are stored on your server and are linked to osm objects.<br>
<br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2012-March/006099.html">The announcement and a short description on josm mailing list</a>.<br><br>Unfortunately, I can't find the plugin in JOSM right now, but that is probably a temporary problem.<br>
<br>Janko Mihelić<br>