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.)
Dave On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Jochen Topf <joc...@remote.org> wrote: > In the recent discussion about the the imports in France and DWG governance > the issue of multiple "layers" in OSM came up again. If we had some kind of > layer system we could stage imports through them instead of adding all data > to the OSM database directly and this would help finding problems etc. > > It turns out there are many other interesting uses of multiple layers but also > many technical and social questions around them. I have written down my > thoughts > on this subject in a (rather lengthy) blog post: > > http://blog.jochentopf.com/2012-09-23-multiple-layers-for-osm.html > > If anybody wants to comment, I think this mailing list is the right place. > > Jochen > -- > Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk