[OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

[John Smith]

On 8 June 2010 10:16, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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=*)
>
> I don't think that's a terribly good idea, this information isn't
> suppose to render on any maps so sub-typing isn't advantageous, also
> UUIDs are object references, they aren't supposed to be website
> referrers, that is simply one use case, but not the main use case.

Also anyone tracking OSM change sets using hstore would be able to do
their own UUID lookup table without any code changes, you just need to
query the database for the UUID and you'll be able to locate the OSM
object it's attached to.

It will take a little more effort to build a cross-reference table of
foreign IDs, but the information collected by someone or some group to
do this could be published as changesets similar to OSM changesets and
then others could keep their own local lookup table as well, having
such an easily distributed database will be much more useful to the
internet in general than a single wiki.