[talk-au] source tags

Ben Kelley ben.kelley at gmail.com
Wed May 28 11:02:39 BST 2008


Hi.

I can see the sense in the approach here, but I guess I'd still recommend
always adding source tags. It is useful if someone comes to edit your work
later to know that your source was survey. (I have now repented of my
previous source-less ways when entering streets from yahoo imagery.)

 - Ben.

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Source
> The purpose of the source tag is to help with the verification of data in
> OSM.
> Ways that have corresponding tracklogs do not need a source tag, the
> tracklogs
> are sufficient. This tag should be used for those cases where there is no
> tracklog and provides a method for asserting that the source was something
> other than a copyright map.
>
>
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