[Tagging] How to map an OpenStreetMap map?

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Sat Feb 29 21:56:47 UTC 2020


On 1/3/20 8:50 am, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> But those uses are mostly the source the mapper used to find out about 
> the tag they are adding, which is different to the source of the map.
>
> source:map=survey means I got the map=* key from a survey.
>
> So if you use map:source=openstreetmap then source:map:source=survey 
> says I found it as being a map using openstreetmap data from a ground 
> survey.


Arr .. yep, convoluted but yes.

>
> On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 08:42, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 1/3/20 8:31 am, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>>
>>
>>     sent from a phone
>>
>>>     On 29. Feb 2020, at 22:25, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>
>>>     <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>         `map_source=openstreetmap` is a good tag?
>>>>
>>>>     Yes, though I think that posting
>>>>     the same thread to tagging and talk ml
>>>>     is a poor idea.
>>>
>>>
>>>     I think source_map=* or source:map=* would be better as that can
>>>     also be used for other specific 'sources'.
>>>
>>
>>     I would prefer map:source, the tag is information=map so it seems
>>     more consistent to further describe the map with map:*=* tags
>
>
>     Yet the source key is still relevant.
>
>
>     See
>
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source
>
>     For
>
>     source:name  ~ 120,000 uses
>
>     source:ref ~182,000 uses
>
>     source:addr  ~7,880,000 uses
>
>
>
>     It would be nice to have some consistency with the use of the
>     source key?
>
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