Hello, I am fairly new to OSM and am figuring out how to use this in my application. I want to be able to add additional metadata to certain places such as hotels, airports, car rental agencies etc. I am planning to do this additional metadata in my own database. However, I read on this page<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Permanent_ID> that the OSM ID is not a permanent id for a place in the map. That page recommends to search on tags and then if that search returns more than one item, then figure out which one is relevant. If I am doing this live in a web app, I wont be able to do this. So, the question is how do I make permanent links to OSM map places in my database so I can enrich the metadata for myself?
You might ask if I can instead add the metadata directly to OSM - I could do that, but what if my metadata is not really relevant to the general community? I dont want to end up polluting OSM tags with something that wont make sense to the rest of the world. Thank you in advance! Sachin Dole
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