OpenStreetMap user ID

ID osm_uid

DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft

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Numeric ID of an OpenStreetMap account. Unlike the display name (osm_user) it never changes. The OpenStreetMap API returns it as the uid attribute of each element version, and osm2pgsql writes it to an osm_uid column.

Parent datatype: User ID by field name userid
Categories: Personally identifiable information, User accounts in products and services
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Wikidata: P8754
Quality: 70/100 · missing: examples, negative example, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^[1-9][0-9]{0,18}$

Python re syntax.

Translations

Language	Name	Description
French	Identifiant d'utilisateur OpenStreetMap
Russian	Идентификатор пользователя OpenStreetMap

Sources

wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8754
doc: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Elements

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Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/osm_uid
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