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<p>Agreed.</p>
<p>I'm sometimes even a little more aggressive, especially when
dealing with geobase street imports. The "attribution" field can
also safely be dropped, IMO,and so can fields like "<a
title="The wiki description page for the geobase:acquisitionTechnique tag"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:geobase:acquisitionTechnique?uselang=en">geobase:acquisitionTechnique</a>"
and "statscan:rbuid", especially if the geometry has changed.</p>
<p>I'll sometimes merge segmented streets like <a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/36820145">this one</a>
into one geometry, if all the other meaningful tags are otherwise
the same and drop those fields that were created just for the
import.</p>
<p>It's all still there in the revision history, but it makes the
current data easier to work with. <br>
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<p>-Nate<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2024-03-23 11:27, Jarek Piórkowski
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<div>This aligns with my practice as well. I frequently encounted
it on buildings, where the source might have been Bing when the
building was first drawn 14 years ago, but if the geometry has
been changed since, of course it makes sense to remove the
source tag on building.<br>
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<div>See also <a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source</a>
which mentions that these days it is more common to specify
source on the changesets, rather than on individual objects.
This is done automatically or semi-automatically by editing
software, and avoids the problem of outdated source=* tags
persisting on objects.<br>
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<div>I wouldn't go around removing source=* from objects I am
_not_ otherwise editing, though.<br>
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<div>--Jarek<br>
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<div>On Sat, Mar 23, 2024, at 11:20, Lee via Talk-ca wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi All,<br>
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<div>I'm curious to know what general consensus is when editing
an existing <br>
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<div>feature that includes a source=* tag. I am inclined to
remove the tag, <br>
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<div>but wonder what others are doing, and what is generally
acceptable <br>
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<div>practise.<br>
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<div>For example: While editing an existing road segment with
the tag <br>
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<div>source=Geobase, I improve its geometry and add additional
tags. While <br>
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<div>source=Geobase may have been it's original source on
import, it no <br>
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<div>longer reflects the feature currently in the database. And
if <br>
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<div>source=Geobase is important to retain as metadata, it
remains in the <br>
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<div>version history for historical context.<br>
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<div>So I have been removing the source=* tag on features I
edit. (Usually). <br>
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<div>Does this fit with community expectations?<br>
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<div>Best regards,<br>
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<div>Lee.<br>
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