[Talk-GB] Street-name toids

[Colin Smale]

On 2020-08-13 12:25, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 16:56, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
>> OpenRoads from the Ordnance Survey contains a field containing the toid for the street name. I wonder if we should include these alongside usrn & uprn. They may be more useful than either for gathering complex roads which share a name.
> 
> I'd tend to see the TOIDs are just an internal ID used in OS MasterMap
> and not something that there's much value in adding to OSM.

That is apparently not how OS are positioning TOIDs, according to
Wikipedia 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOID 

TOIDs are intended to be persistent, and aimed at integration between
databases. OSM would be one such database, wouldn't it?
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