[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Notes from website should include an indication the note was created here (Issue #3932)

[Matheus Gomes]

The way I see it:

### Problem

There is a clear problem for note solvers (as @angoca and many note-solvers face it) to sort them by priority. Low quality notes should not make noise among the good quality ones, and identifying the source of the notes is a great indicative of quality in order to prioritize work and work faster (eg.: coming from an app: usually good notes; coming from Instagram or OSM website, quality varies a lot).

Also, knowing the source can brings us some additional information as: is there some app that has some bugs and is creating bad or duplicate notes?

### Proposed solutions:
1 - change the whole notes model or update the API to accommodate a new field `source=`, just like changesets
2 - append a hashtag like many apps currently do, while 1 is not done

### Pros and Cons

1 - is a more elegant solution. However, it takes a lot of time to implement it (time and manpower that we don't have). Also, some users don't like this because notes are designed to be lightweight.
2 - is a very simple solution (already in use by many apps) that solves the problem, while 1 is not developed. If someday 1 is done, just a couple of clicks can revert the commit. However, it is not elegant at all, and some devs don't like hashtags for diverse reasons (not stated here yet in this issue, but I suppose they are valid).

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Being said that, what is not clear to me is: why adding a small metadata on notes (being in form of `source=` or #) is such a bad thing? A note appending this info becomes now heavy?

Notes created by others apps are already carrying this very useful information; it's just OSM website that is failing on providing this info.

Is there any way to easily capture the referrer to know where all the notes came from, without implementing anything like the proposed solutions?

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