[Imports] Import UNICEF data in Central African Republic, act II

Michal Palenik michal.palenik at freemap.sk
Sat Jan 25 10:16:37 UTC 2014


just of curiosity: is there an easy way (josm plugin/...) to view
history of a node/way/relation as given by changeset source tags?

michal
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 01:05:57AM -0800, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2014/1/25 Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>
> >>
> >> I think that "source=UNICEF" very much belongs on each imported
> >> record, as a mapper I would appreciate seeing that while editing.
> >
> > and what would you do to this tag when editing one of the objects? How much
> > would you have to modify them in order to remove the tag? Or would you
> > remove it with every tiny modification? Would you suggest to split ways in
> > order to improve source-tag consistency?
> > cheers,
> > Martin
> 
> Seeing the Unicef source tag would help put the node history in
> context while mapping.
> 
> Seeing the Unicef tag on the node might well cause me to dig deeper,
> view the changeset,
> which I'd be unlikely to do if the node was sparsely tagged.  If the
> edit were extensive I'd try to look up the Unicef source record,
> especially before altering something source there.
> 
> I would leave the source=Unicef tag in place.
> 
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