[Imports-us] Automated Edit Proposal, remove area=yes, and fix broken source tag in US Massachusetts

Greg Troxel gdt at ir.bbn.com
Tue Aug 13 23:36:35 UTC 2013


Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> writes:

>> and to replace the source tag value with the official name
>> of the data set used for the import: "MassGIS Data - Building
>> Footprints (2-D, from 2002 LiDAR data)". 
>
> Is the official name what is most meaningful to mappers? Would something
> short like source=MassGIS Building Footprints be better?

I think the point of the longer form is that there are multiple datasets
From muliiple observation sources, and to distinguish among them.
(Basically there is an older dataset from lidar that is only near boston,
and a newer dataset from orthophotos that is statewide.)
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