[Openstreetmap-dev] Re: Running out of OSM IDs ?

[Tommy Persson]

> From: "Immanuel Scholz" <immanuel.scholz at gmx.de>
> 
> >>   First, do they overlap ?
> 
> They DO overlap.
> 
> 
> > Good question - I strongly hope so. Steve?
> > For JOSM, they are assumed not to overlap.
> 
> JOSM is now fixed to accept ununique unique identifiers. :-|
> 
> > I think they either should be unique as in "unique identifier" or renamed
> > in XML to "id". ;-)
> 
> I still think this. I fired a trac 116 for changing of "uid" to "id".
> 

Was this the question if segment uid and node uid could be the same?
If so I also assumed that they could not be the same and osmpedit will
probably not work properly in some cases.  Will fix this soon but I
agree that the name should be changed or that this should be
documentet properly on the API page (yes I know I can do it myself :-).

/Tommy