[OSM-talk] Giving everything a unique ID

[John Smith]

On 3 June 2010 19:39, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What external applications need from OSM is a persistent ID for persistent
> objects. If a business moves, then use a yellow page application to find the
> new address.

Businesses are only one application, I'm not sure what 3rd party sites
are using OSM IDs but Flickr and osmfuel.org are 2 that I know of and
every time some new use for OSM IDs occur people always seem to
comment about why it's such a bad idea to use OSM IDs, I'm trying to
come up with a better suggestion.