[OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

[John Smith]

On 7 June 2010 20:05, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> UUID is an already well structured unique id so there is no point trying to
> redesign it ... lets just use it ...

I haven't seen anyone argue against UUIDs specifically, just some
people have approached the problem of trying to use existing tags to
uniquely identify something, but that assumes there is nothing
similarly tagged nearby, at which point someone has to go in and make
a tag change anyway, regardless if it is fixing up broken UUID
references or other tags.