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

[Sam Vekemans]

Good call Andy,

Ya, i should make a new login for uploading CanVec data, i have been
using 'geobase:Acrosscanadatrails', but that was 'back in tha day'
when the list didnt know what canvec was, and called the Canada
Import,  'GeoBase Import', which we now know what it is :)

In the user profile description, i'll put more source detail, as that
helps other users when they see the data.

HOWEVER, when im just copying-in a few features (to fill in the area
im working in), i dont need to login as that 'source:user' because
'brain power'  after physically being in the area, im aware of what
features are 'more correct'.
So having that 'attribution=*" tag helps, since there on those features.

I dont think that the 'source' tag is that relevant to add. 'cause if
it has 'attribution=Natural Resources Canada', we already know that
it MUST HAVE been converted by a script, and MUST be the latest script
of the day (changeset date/time).
I think that it is essential to have the 'source=' box in josm set as
a preset list of choices (to put in the changeset). .. That would
help.

what are other peoples definition of; How to give sufficient attribution?

(mine is direct on the feature tag, as the only needed, the rest is extra)

Sam

On 11/20/09, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Really ? but for personal contributions, the attribution is already
>> attached to all elements with the "user" and "uid" fields. Is that not
>> attribution ?
>
> Um, that's just a display. You'll notice you don't add tags to achieve that.
>
>> Here in France, many contributors use the French cadastral WMS (land
>> registry) and the attribution is a legal obligation in this case. If
>> we don't add a tag but only move it to the changeset, it will
>> disappear to all exports.
>
> It'll disappear if I remove the tag from the way. Is that then illegal data?
>
>> I agree that a tag "source" to all created
>> elements is not the best solution and I would like to find a better
>> one, but we cannot make the attribution invisible.
>
> My intention isn't to make it invisible, just to find a better
> mechanism than using tags. In a similar way to uid and user fields, we
> could (if decided) add the contents of the "attribution" tag from the
> latest changeset too.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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