[OSM-dev] [OSM-legal-talk] OSM IDs as foreign keys (was: ODbL "virality" questions)

[John Smith]

2009/10/6 Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com>:
> Any time I discuss this, I always refer to Wikitravel Press. Now that
> I've put the video online, everyone who wasn't at SOTM08 can also see
> what Jani had to say on this topic. See http://vimeo.com/6847540 , and
> (if you want to lose all context) skip to 6:00. For those of you who
> don't want to watch the video or can't, they use the name and
> approximate location to match things like restaurants and hotels
> between wikitravel and OSM. There's no OSM information in wikitravel
> or wikitravel links in OSM.

I understand how this may work for buildings and other POIs and it
seems like a really good solution to the problem.

What I'm trying to figure out is how this would apply to things like
long stretches of highways?