[OSM-dev] A new take on the "mutable" idea

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Matt Amos wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Frederik Ramm<frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>> If their editor would inform them that they are editing the administrative
>> border as copied from some official publication, then they still *could*
>> edit the border if they e.g. had information about said official publication
>> being wrong or outdated, but they would likely refrain from editing it
>> otherwise. Which I'd find desirable.

> isn't this what the "source" tag is for?

It is very easy to edit objects without ever looking at the source tag. 
If that were made impossible, yes, then you are right; but I think it is 
impractical.

If we were to agree on using some magical keyword inside the source tag 
that would cause the editor to somehow highlight the object or present a 
pop-up when the object is being edited - maybe. I've often been thinking 
that there ought to be something special about the source tag anyway, 
because many times, if you edit something, the source tag should be 
amended, replaced, or removed, and people tend to forget. Lots of 
coastline for example is still flagged to come from PGS, when in truth 
it does not bear any resemblance to the PGS data any longer.

Still no replacement for the second part of my suggestion which would 
have provded an indication about how much diligence went into an edit 
though, unless you want to claim that any edit that does not change the 
source tag as well is automatically dubious or so...

Bye
Frederik

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