<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>John<br><br>Surely if a way needs shifting, it needs shifting, irrelevant of what the source was?<br>---------<br><br>I've seen people, quite rightly, removing nonsensical source tags such as Source=JOSM/Potlatch!!<br><br>JOSM & Ptlatch are _not_ the source, just the means by which to input the data into OSM.<br><br>The wiki page for source doesn't, for some strange reason, include GPS in its list of Core Values. Any idea why?<br><br>If I was to add a source tag I would quite often use "My Eyes", which to me is the most important way of collecting data.<br><br>Dave F.<br><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> John Smith <deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 8 September, 2009 11:42:24<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSM-talk] source=(survey, yahoo, gps...)<br></font><br>2009/9/8 Valent Turkovic <<a ymailto="mailto:valent.turkovic@gmail.com" href="mailto:valent.turkovic@gmail.com">valent.turkovic@gmail.com</a>>:<br>> Hi,<br>> I can see that Potlach support source tag but JOSM doesn't.<br>><br>> You can see the example here:<br>> <a href="http://bayimg.com/image/dadjnaacm.jpg" target="_blank">http://bayimg.com/image/dadjnaacm.jpg</a><br>><br>><br>> Do you use source tag? Why and how, please explain? I read the wiki
page<br>> but I don't see many people use it and I'm wondering why.<br><br>Annoying isn't it, I wish everyone would tag the source of everything<br>properly so roads don't get shifted because people assume it was from<br>low-res sat etc depending where it is.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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