Ah, I forgot to say: The result of many, lengthy, previous discussions about permanent IDs was generally: We don't want to shoulder the responsibility of maintaining a permanent ID in OSM that others can use for easy linking; instead, those others should be doing that work for themselves. Hence the idea of "fuzzy" permanent links was born, where your link is not really a link but a search query:
"A restaurant named Bella Italia in the general vicinity of X", or "The restaurant that is in this building, if any", and so on. That way, the person placing the link has to decide which property, for *them*, is the "essence" of what they're pointing to, instead of burdening us in OSM to add a ton of IDs to a restaurant object. Some work has been done by Roland Olbricht (of Overpass API) to make the concept workable, see: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Permanent_ID Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
