[OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

[Anthony]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de>wrote:

> I don't think that your uuid-tags will be more stable either - they are
> subject to thousands of editors that will sometimes delete tags they
> don't know or that won't take over those tags to the ways when they
> create polys for them.
>

What about the website=* tag?  Do people tend to maintain them?  Because
website=u.osm.org/c9f0f516-7da2-4cf0-a455-b09f90792c7d would work equally
well and wouldn't require any new tags.

I don't think the uuid tags would be treated perfectly.  But they do seem
like they'd be better than nothing, even if only some portion of the mappers
maintain them.  Also, I'm one of those mappers that will sometimes delete
tags I don't know.  But not if they're given an objective explanation in the
wiki.

The only thing I'm really afraid of is that these tags would violate what
some people seem to believe is a rule - the supposed "map only what's on the
ground" rule.  Do the website=* and wikipedia=* tags violate this rule?

Anthony
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