[talk-au] More on the survey tag

[Ross Scanlon]

> I'm still a relative newcomer to OSM (and am still in wonder at the complexity and enormity of the task!) and have found this discussion quite interesting.  I only use Potlatch as I was advised it was simple, and for beginners, and it loaded by default in the edit screen.  I use an Oregon300 GPS.  I started only using the tag source=survey until Potltach added the GPS tag.  I thought that the Wiki had simply not been updated but that some "official" (so to speak) decision had been made to encourage the use of the tag source=GPS.  I then went back to my traces and changed the source to GPS to keep up with the default application.  


Potlatch is good for simple edits, josm is much better in the long run.

Have a look at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparison_of_editors

as you can see there a few to chose from.

 
> From what I've read I now will go back to source=survey and add the tag survey=gps.  I will consider further the advantages of further definition to GPS type (I think that could well end up in a Commodore/Falcon and Landcruiser/Patrol debate).


Good idea of John's wasn't it.  Yes gps type could easily end up like that and I don't see any great advantage, unless you have dgps or the like.

Cheers
Ross