I've once spoken to an OSM "evangelist" and he really struggled to get this point. In a way I got his point the OSM model can virtually store anything so it's

I've once spoken to an OSM "evangelist" and he really struggled to get this point. In a way I got his point the OSM model can virtually store anything so it's the data provider burden to develop a glue code to interact with OSM. However because of potential vandalism or sheer goofiness objects and ids can potentially break at anytime within OSM so writing glue code is actually not trivial. Maybe a half way solution would be to promote generic glue code framework. I've heard about this project by a french local authority that help sync back data from OSM to your own database. Dunno if other similar projects exists. https://gitlab.com/Geonov/le-bon-tag https://gitlab.com/Geonov/le-bon-tag