[OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

[John Smith]

On 7 June 2010 18:26, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like Tim's Query-to-map [1] which accomplishes this task already and
>> doesn't rely on any extra tagging, by combining bbox+[ref|name] -- tags that
>> don't vanish as fast as some mysterious uuid tag.
>
> There is a lot of ID tags in the database and they seem to be a lot
> more stable than OSM IDs.
>
> It might do so, but it's horribly inefficient as a result of needing
> to do searches across areas, and can't cope with an occupant such as a
> business moving across town without an even more inefficient brute
> force search which may not work if the tags fix the name due to
> spelling mistakes etc etc etc.
>

Also it doesn't cover a new thought I had on the subject, being able
to assign unique IDs in the field without needing to connect to the
main OSM DB to get a new ID, this might be useful in emergency
situations where you need to tag a lot of things in tandem with a
group in very short order and being able to easily share and modify
that information with only LAN connectivity.