[OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

[Anthony]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:18 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> You might be confusing a couple of issues here, when you look at OSM
> tags you are viewing a simplified database, that is the raw data, what
> you are describing is presentation of that data in a more human
> friendly way, this isn't the same thing as free form text.
>

I'm not the one who brought up free form text, you are.

I highly doubt anyone would seriously want to document, beyond what
> already exists in the OSM DB, every possible object anyone would want
> to link to, eg someone takes a picture of a lamp post because it looks
> interesting for a photo and wants to link it to the OSM object that
> might describe the location and height of the object.
>

Do we have such objects in OSM?

In any case, I don't think "anyone" will want to document "what already
exists in the OSM DB".  I would expect someone creating an ID to link to
(i.e. the person who uploaded the picture) to put in a brief description of
what they're linking to, though (at the very least "a cool lamp post").
Otherwise, we have no basis to maintain the link, and they might as well
just link to the node.

Really, I think we need a better example than a lamp post, or at least the
node ID of an actual lamp post in OSM.

If on the other hand the object is worth commenting on or further
> describing, this is where something like wikipedia or freebase would
> be useful, you link the wikipedia/freebase IDs to the OSM ID and then
> you can write a three page essay on the object.
>

A three page description would be way too long.

I might be wrong, but I don't think there is a specific need for free
> form text but there is a need to link the text to a map object.
>

How else are you going to describe what your object is?  I don't see a
uuid:lamp_post in your list of examples.  I guess that would be,
uuid:man_made?  I don't think many people are going to figure that out.  In
fact, I can't even really figure it out.
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