[Talk-ca] GeoBase tags

[Gordon Dewis]

Personally, I haven't imported anything with a geobase tag, but I will remove them if I edit a feature with one. Do they serve any purpose during the import process?

  --G

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On 2013-02-25, at 19:51, Bruno Remy <bremy.qc.ca at gmail.com> wrote:

> Instead of a filter in an editor, why not a osm-bot doing this job?
> 
> Just my two cents...
> 
> Bruno Remy
> 
> Le 2013-02-25 19:46, "Harald Kliems" <kliems at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 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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