[Merkaartor] Points without any information should not get creaty_by

bvh bvh-osm at irule.be
Thu Jun 26 08:47:51 BST 2008


On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:35:08PM +0200, Chris Browet wrote:
> > something I noted with Merkaartor. Points which have no information at all
> > (e.g. road points) also should not get created_by tags when uploaded. This
> > is wasted space.
> I don't know the utility of the 'created_by' in the first place, but JOSM
> seems to create them also (or has been? the node I see is dated 20080320,
> but JOSM do not indicate a version...)

Me personally I have never been a fan of those created_by tags.
Early merkaartor didn't add them and I even made a proposal on dev or
talk to completly abandon them but seems everyone else thought they had
utility...

cu bart




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