[OSM-dev] API 0.6 and changeset tags

[Łukasz Jernaś]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    for 0.6 editing, JOSM will stop adding "created_by" tags to
> individual objects (and might even remove existing ones, subject to
> discussion) because I consider this unecessary database pollution.
> Instead, the software and version will be available from the changeset
> tags. I assume that other editors will behave likewise?
>
> Does anyone want to suggest a set of tags for the changeset? The API
> wiki page uses, in an example, "created_by=JOSM 1.61". I am slightly in
> favour of doing something like
>
> client=JOSM
> client-version=1234

In this case I would rather go for:
client=JOSM
client:version=1234
client:plugins=a;b;c;d

IMHO this would be easier to seperate and also give some information
that tha'ts really part of the client string.
But... I haven't got anything against user_agent except that I
generally don't like it ;)

Regards,
-- 
Łukasz [DeeJay1] Jernaś