Re: [Tagging] ID Permanence

2010-06-03 Thread John Smith
I've written a small proof of concept script in PHP, you feed the script the type of object and the object ID and it will return the current UUIDs or generate new ones and upload those. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/UUID ___

Re: [Tagging] ID Permanence

2010-06-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 June 2010 01:30, Tyler Gunn wrote: > I am, however, curious what use you are envisioning for this UUID data? > Are you thinking of external sites that would want to reference OSM data > directly? External sites such as Flickr already use OSM IDs, which could be bad when the internal referenc

Re: [Tagging] ID Permanence

2010-06-03 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:47:14 +1000, John Smith wrote: > I've penned some initial thoughts on what to do about Object ID Permanence > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/UUID Hi John, Being a programmer I understand what a UUID is and have used them many times. I am, however, cur

Re: [Tagging] ID Permanence

2010-06-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 June 2010 01:22, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > but isn't building and warehouse here the same object? IMHO it should > be uuid:building for the warehouse and uuid:name (or better > "uuid:operator") for "The Texas School Book Depository" Thanks for the suggestion, I'll update the wiki page, I

Re: [Tagging] ID Permanence

2010-06-03 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/6/3 John Smith : > I've penned some initial thoughts on what to do about Object ID Permanence > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/UUID in tagging you give this example: * building=warehouse * name=The Texas School Book Depository * uuid:building=21d906f1-7a93

[Tagging] ID Permanence

2010-06-02 Thread John Smith
I've penned some initial thoughts on what to do about Object ID Permanence http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/UUID ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging