<div dir="ltr">I don't understand the real value of survey:date or whatever other key you want to use to indicate the last survey date. Sometimes things do not change for many years, sometimes they change the day after the survey was done.<div>
<br></div><div>I'm struggling with this "resurvey" item as well. I've been mapping my area for 3 years now. Many things have changed: new walking paths, new streets, new one ways (it changed 3 times in the same street now). Sometimes I remember that things have changed, sometimes not (e.g. new benches, a shop moved next door, a bakery that changed name). And that is for an area that I know rather well. <br>
<br></div><div>For places where I come less regularly I will probably miss all those changes, unless I do a complete resurvey of the area.</div><div><br></div><div>What if the previous mapper doesn't survey the same things I map ? What's the use of the survey date in that case?</div>
<div><br></div><div>For me, in most cases the source is useless. If I notice something that is different now, it doesn't matter what the previous mapper wrote as source. I have to change it.</div><div><br></div><div>
I do tag my changesets with survey:date for quite a while now, but that is to find back my notes. And this tag is mentioned on the main map feature page <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Annotation">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Annotation</a> . </div>
<div><br></div><div>Furthermore, as you indicate the survey:date is on a changeset, but which area was revisited, what did the mapper survey ? You don't know.</div><div><br></div><div>So in summary: for me all source tags are pretty useless, and I need to resurvey any area completely each time I visit it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>regards</div><div><br></div><div>m</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:01 PM, André Pirard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:A.Pirard.Papou@gmail.com" target="_blank">A.Pirard.Papou@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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Some data of the map changes often, in particular what's on the
road: traffic signs, bus lines etc.<br>
It would be interesting if someone tackling a region could
determine what in his interests was checked the longest ago.
Hence the need for a date at the beginning of the data that is
not of the source of information if any but that indicates when
that source, visual observation or other was still current last.
The someone would deal with the oldest in priority and update
that date if that can be said. The data field of the query
result would be sorted to determine the oldest ones.<br>
Is the source:survey date appropriate for that, pardon my
limited English ...<br>
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Hi Andre,<br>
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I think that the correct key is survey:date. <br>
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Thank you for replying and confirming that high precision is needed
in this too fuzzy OSM world.<br>
I found no "survey:" key, if I look for <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/survey" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/survey</a>,
it falls back on key:source <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Survey#Annotation" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Survey#Annotation</a>
(which is a non existing label).<br>
What I'm talking about is <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source" title="Key:source" target="_blank">Key:<span>source</span></a>
and more specifically its phrase <tt style="background-color:#dde;white-space:pre-wrap" dir="ltr"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source:name" title="Key:source:name" target="_blank">"source:name</a>=survey
10 November 2012"</tt>.<br>
That is, data consisting of lowercase "survey" followed by a
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KeyMapper 3 also uses it. </blockquote>
</div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Keypad-Mapper_3#new_features_version_3.1" target="_blank">Using
an URL to spare 50 people a search</a>, indeed, thanks.<br>
So, either we warn Keymapper that they use unofficial tagging that
escapes an overpass search,<br>
or I still have to learn what many people are trying to teach me:
that OSM is nothing but fuzzy (sending cars the wrong one-way) and
that the overpass query has to be extra huge.<br>
survey:date is not providing for telling what has been <br><div class="">
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a good idea to start including this in my regular edits, I'm going
to add those as well. There is added value in it. I think it's
best to do this on the changeset but that might go unnoticed when
editing, also in josm.<br>
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It's useful in JOSM to save ourselves checking the same element 36
times but mostly with overpass to make oneself a to do list.<div class=""><br>
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that tag on every object seems like overkill.<br>
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Of course, only what often "changes without notice".<br>
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At first sight, the overpass API is able to use a regexp to look for
data but not for keys.<br>
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