Hi Dudley - <div><br></div><div>Welcome to OSM! I think you've done great work & done everything you're supposed to do. Then again, I'm pretty much a newcomer, too.</div><div><br></div><div>One warning: the whole topic of the wiki / tagging / etc. is a little more chaotic than you might expect as a newcomer. </div>
<div><br></div><div>For whatever reason, some people believe the wiki is out of date, or not relevant. I and many others believe this is a silly perspective & that the wiki is correct and up to date until it is changed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Stay tuned, hang in there, and keep mapping!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, Jeff</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Dudley Ibbett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dudleyibbett@hotmail.com" target="_blank">dudleyibbett@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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As a relatively new mapper I am rather confused about this discussion about source. To quote the wiki for the tag, source: <br><br>"The <b>source</b> tag is a meta-tag, used for categorising the source of
information added to the database. It is not usually used for
rendering, but it assists with the <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability" title="Verifiability" target="_blank">verification</a> of data, and informs future editors about the origins of the data they are modifying."
<br><br>In term of the changeset this is what you find for the change set under "<b>proposed features</b>/changeset"<br><br>"This tag is to be used the same way as <tt style="background-color:#e0e0f0;white-space:pre-wrap" dir="ltr"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source" title="Key:source" target="_blank">source</a>=*</tt>
on objects and may be a future replacement to object level source
tagging, when using it, it is highly recommended that your edit should
only contain data from that source."<br><br>The former is quite well documented and readily seen by newbies under the properties window in JOSM. I've no idea how to find the latter within JOSM for a particular object.<br>
<br>I can be a pain to add source tags to each object but I just hacked the presets and added a drop down box for these. I though it was good mapping practice as per the wiki.<br><br>I would be tempted to just to tag the changeset but I would have to change the way I edit and use many more changesets during a typical session. Perhaps I should and this is why my stats are so bad in this respect!!!<br>
<br>If putting source on the changeset is to be the way forward then it should be better documented for Newbies and also the changeset tag needs to be readily viewable for an object in editors. i.e. there when you select it in the editor. If it already is and I'm missing this, it would be good to know how you can view this information as I tend to be more likely to change an object where there is no object source tag.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>Dudley<br><br><br> </font></span></div></div>
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