[Imports] [Talk-ca] Modifying GeoBase Ways.

[Simone Cortesi]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 13:26, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> My take on it is that is should not be on the geo-features, but it
> should be on the changeset (and the wiki if you like). My reasoning is
> that we don't store attribution for normal contributors on the
> geo-features, so we should be consistent with imports. When a
> contributor creates a new way we don't add tags to the way to say who
> contributed it, so I don't think we should add attribution tags to
> ways etc for imports. I think it's fine to say that such meta-data
> should, if used at all, go into the changeset information instead.
> (Actually, to keep the parallel the same, it should go into the user
> account, if a dedicated account is used, but that's something I'm less
> bothered about).

I'm all for it. Geo has nothing to do with attribution. We give credit
to the geodata-maker by informing the user that the given feature
comes from a certain contributed dataset...hence exposing this
information in the changeset comment is the way to go.

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-S