[Tagging] source:geolocation?

Alan Mintz Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.Net
Thu Feb 18 17:12:25 GMT 2010


At 2010-02-17 21:12, Roy Wallace wrote:
>I'm a big fan of source:*=*. This allows for a road to be tagged with
>e.g. source:name=survey + source:surface=nearmap
>
>But there doesn't seem to be any way to specify the source of a
>feature's *location*.

I've been using semi-colon-separated values like 
source=survey;image;usgs_imagery;LACA to indicate that I:

- Drove the street (survey)
- Took a picture of the street sign (image)
- Traced it from the USGS satellite imagery (usgs_imagery)
- Confirmed the name with the LA County Assessor's maps (LACA)

The source generally implies what type of information was used from it, 
though there is some overlap (like using tract maps to provide exact 
measurements for new streets or those with unclear imagery).

I have no opposition, though, to the more precise:

source:location=survey;usgs_imagery + source:name=survey;image;LACA

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>





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