[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Notes - Add the ability to link a note to a way/point/area/relation etc (#2588)

[Peter Newman]

> Well everybody will have their own favourite bit of metadata and before long you have bugzilla.

I guess you mean like WIP #1578?

> More to the point, and something I missed last night, is really what @woodpeck is saying - notes were never intended as a way of discussing existing objects like this. They are designed and intended as a way of attaching a discussion to a geographic location, not an object.
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> So in the same way that we added comments to changesets rather than allowing a changeset ID to be attached to a note, the correct way to do this (if we wanted to) would be to allow comments to be attached to objects rather than repurposing notes.

Yeah it just seems to me from both a back and front end perspective the more stuff that can be reused, the less work needs to be done so the quicker it can be a benefit. Certainly I'd think the functionality in changesets would be sufficient for this. Personally I'd have thought changesets is just note comments but only for registered people, but I guess that's all been done now.

Is there already an issue open for comment functionality against way/point etc, or should I retitle this one in a better way?

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