[talk-au] tagging the source of edits

[Ross Scanlon]

> Also if I add a node to a way and tag that node as a highway:crossing
> positioned by nearmap imagery, should I just add source:nearmap to
> that new node? I ask because I came across I crossing node with no
> source tag, so I'm not sure if this implies the source was the same as
> the way that the node is on (survey) or was the source tag
> accidentally left off, or is the source tag not really needed for
> something minor like that?

If you add a highway=crossing from nearmap then it should be source=nearmap.  That's the source of the infomation.

As you've suggested a node, as part of a way, with some sort of information without it's own source tag inherits the way's source tag.

As John suggested if you modify a way that was tagged source=yahoo using nearmap then it should be changed to source=nearmap.  It's no different to changing from source=yahoo to source=survey when updating to something that is now gps traced.

I'd be cautious about changing anything that is source=survey (gps or otherwise) though to source=nearmap.  I have done this in a couple of places but it's thing's like a road being made dual carriage way when it was originally a single carriageway, or the addition of a roundabout.

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Cheers
Ross