[OSM-talk] Multiple Layers for OSM

[Jochen Topf]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:11:34AM -0700, Dave Sutter wrote:
> This is a very interesting thread and I need a little more time to
> understand what is in it so far. I do want to make one technical
> comment. It is possible to to have multiple databases and still have
> unique IDs across them. An ID server can be set up to create the IDs.
> When one database creates a new object it requests an ID from the ID
> server rather than creating an ID locally. (And of course, if you are
> creating a lot of IDs, you would make one request to the ID server in
> bulk to get all the IDs needed.)

Yes, but it makes the whole system harder to build and less robust.

Jochen
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