[OSM-talk] "proprietary" keys and values, machine readable vs. humans

John Sturdy jcg.sturdy at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 14:11:47 GMT 2012


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

> the concept seems to be documented here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/UUID

I don't see any mention of what should happen to UUIDs attached to
ways, when ways are split or merged.  Should this be coded explicitly
in editors?  In which case, it makes sense to push all such "external
linking" tags to use UUIDs, so that they are handled consistently when
the map is edited, without editors having to make special provision
for all known external linking tags.

__John



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