[Talk-ca] GeoBase tags

Harald Kliems kliems at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 00:46:07 UTC 2013


Maybe it would make sense to come up with a consensus of which tags
can be stripped. I know that for the US TIGER data JOSM automatically
removes the cruft when you edit a way, and we should have this for
Geobase/Canvec, too.
 Harald.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
>> From: Andrew Allison [mailto:andrew.allison at teksavvy.com]
>> Subject: [Talk-ca] GeoBase tags
>>
>> Hello:
>>
>>       Are the Geobase attribution tags relevant, should I leave them in
>> or strip them out?
>
> There's no legal reason why you can't remove the attribution=* tags (or any tag, for that matter).
>
> My practice is to remove them when the source=* tag indicates that the source is geobase and I'm editing the way anyways. There may be other import cruft that you want to strip out at the same time.
>
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