[OSM-talk] Giving everything a unique ID

[John Smith]

On 4 June 2010 00:20, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> Hmm, on second thought, maybe that's not such a hot idea.  There might be
> two different stores which are combined into one, and obviously we'd want to
> keep both uuids (otherwise they wouldn't be "permanent").

This may require multiple relations against a single node or area
otherwise you won't know which uuid would apply to which store.

> Still, I'd prefer uuid=1;2;3 to uuid:*=*.

The benefit of sub-tagging instead of tag stuffing is it is more
efficient for things to parse.