On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Dave Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@sr71.net">dave@sr71.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 10:48 -0500, Russ Nelson wrote:<br>
> > Also, are there tags to keep information about metadata like the<br>
> > data source (i.e. gps, digitized, etc)?<br>
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> Chris and Dave have set a standard for imports that says that existing<br>
> metadata should be preserved. As long as you do that, anybody who<br>
> comes along later can turn that metadata into OSM tags.<br>
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</div>Yeah, I'd say please preserve as much as you can *especially* so people<br>
can track the origin of the data.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>This is also important so that you can make a diff and update imported data if a new, updated set of external data comes up. Also, you might be able to send changes back to the data source.<br></div>
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