[OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

[Anthony]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:16 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 7 June 2010 23:39, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> UUIDs aren't just so you can slap a QR code in some shop window


Just to clarify, I don't mean to imply that they'd be right, just that I
could see it happening.


> Also just because something isn't
> on the ground shouldn't mean it should be deleted just because someone
> is overly zealot about only having things in the database that are on
> the ground, otherwise we might as well start deleting half the state
> and country borders that have nothing on the ground.
>

To be clear, I agree.


> If you want to interlink databases, eg wikipedia, you would simply
> extend upon the work I've done for UUID to OSM object lookup table,
> you'd add one more table and then use the UUID as the key field and
> link other object IDs from other databases to it.
>

Do you have a link?  I'm not familiar with that proposal.
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