[talk-au] tagging the source of edits

Ross Scanlon info at 4x4falcon.com
Tue Jul 27 14:32:12 BST 2010


On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:27:19 +1000
John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27 July 2010 22:54, Ross Scanlon <info at 4x4falcon.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> source=survey is slightly ambiguous, as that might refer to the source
> of the name, not the source of the location data, and you usually get
> better turn, intersection and curve data from Nearmap than any
> consumer grade gps...

Yes.

But I'd still be cautious about changing it without any other reference.

-- 
Cheers
Ross




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