<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Teemu Koskinen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:teemu.koskinen@mbnet.fi">teemu.koskinen@mbnet.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:03:37 +0300, Eugene Alvin Villar <<a href="mailto:seav80@gmail.com" target="_blank">seav80@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:44 PM, John Smith <<a href="mailto:delta_foxtrot@yahoo.com" target="_blank">delta_foxtrot@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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However it'd be nice for editors to strip it out automatically.<br>
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I don't favor editors stripping out created_by=* tags automatically whenever<br>
a user edits an area. These changes mask the actual edits the user makes and<br>
makes analyzing changesets harder. (Imagine looking at a changeset where<br>
hundreds of ways were edited by stripping out the created_by=* tags but only<br>
one way had a significant change (e.g. adding oneway=yes).<br>
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What I have been doing is to strip these created_by=* in an explicit<br>
separate changeset and adding the tag comment="cleaned up created_by=*<br>
tags".<br>
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JOSM already strips automatically the created_by tags when uploading, but only from those objects that the user has modified. It doesn't touch any other objects that the user has downloaded and contain a created_by tag, so there will be no spam. This way the created_by tags will gradually disappear as the data is edited.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Ah, I see. This makes sense. Thanks for clarifying! (Now if only Potlatch and Merkaartor will do the same...)<br><br>