[OSM-talk] Giving everything a unique ID

[John Smith]

To extend Anthony's idea slightly further it might be useful to create
a bot script that if you want a UUID for an object in the OSM DB, it
can tag the object with a new UUID and return that, or simply return
the any existing UUIDs, this would take care of things like
Flickr/osmfuel/wikipedia needing to find out the UUID if they get a
node/way/relation ID.