[OSM-talk] Giving everything a unique ID

[John Smith]

On 3 June 2010 16:26, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
<jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> here is a humble suggestion, instead of giving *everything* unique id,

I didn't actually mean everything in that sense, for example the nodes
on a road don't all need unique IDs nor should they get them, but at
the same time a single node might need 2 unique IDs, one for the
building and one for the business occupying the building.

In any case I think I mixed up 2 issues in the one email, that is
assigning objects unique IDs and then distributing those unique IDs on
stickers as a kind of PR/advertising exercise.

To cover the first issue about using/assigning unique IDs against OSM
objects, I've written a wiki page with some initial thoughts on the
subject:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/UUID

As for promotion, I'll leave that till UUIDs are sorted.