[OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

John Smith wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like a rather hypothetical situation to me but if I ever found 
myself in such a situation I would simply assign a block of negative IDs 
to every participant and have them use these. Just like in an .osc 
document really.

Bye
Frederik