[OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

[Anthony]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:18 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 7 June 2010 23:12, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Using that logic, source=* from aerial imagery, would need to be
> removed,


Well, I'm sure even the most ardent "map only what's on the ground"
proponents will make exceptions for things which are legally required.  As
for source tags that *aren't* legally required, I'd actually argue myself
that as metatags they should be on the changeset, not the element.

Either way, I could see someone going around removing uuid=* tags from
places where they couldn't find the QR code in the store window.


> although if wikipedia starts linking to OSM objects do we
> need to also link to wikipedia objects?
>

I'd suggest that we should have a single website=* or uuid=* link to an
all-inclusive wiki (can't use Wikipedia as that single website because of
their notability rules), and that all other linking to any other websites
should be done by adding an external link from that wiki page.

So, no.

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:18 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> While you can embed a UUID in a URL I would suggest it gets it's own
> tag since lots of objects already get a website tag.
>

I'd prefer that.  But if the "let's try to get consensus for a new tag"
process fails, there's always "shove it into an already accepted tag"
option.  (At which point it'd probably be website:uuid=*, or even
website:uuid:building/operator/etc=*)
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