[Tagging] Date of survey

Marc Gemis marc.gemis at gmail.com
Tue Dec 23 14:59:00 UTC 2014


The date in the history is the date that the modified object is stored in
osm.
When I did a  number of surveys in the same area a week or a month before,
this modification date is "useless" to find back my notes.
Just having a survey:date on the changeset allows me to pinpoint the date
of the survey exactly.

Take e.g this changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/27649274
 The survey was made on Dec 14, but the modification dates will show Dec
23, 2014.
Since I made several walks in that area, it is nice to see the survey date
at once.

There is also no "pollution" of the objects -tags as it is on the changeset.

I'm not forcing anyone to use this method, but it works for me.

BTW, I originally posted about the survey:date tag because the OP asked how
to add a date to a source tag in case of a survey. At least that is how I
interpreted the OP.

regards

m



On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:

> On 23/12/2014 04:16, Marc Gemis wrote:
>
>> Which would not help in my case, as I work for several days on the same
>> survey.
>>
>
> +1, although I'm not understanding the point of this tag at all. What does
> it add that isn't already available via the History command (Key: H) in
> Potlatch? Is it not available in other editors?
>
> One advantageous thing would be to click on a GPX trace that's loaded in
> an editor to find out when it was added & by whom.
>
> Dave F.
>
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