[Talk-ht] Please, please attribute your sources

[Margie Roswell]

David, thanks very much for the mention of my new little Potlatch video!

viewership's been slight...
Hopefully eventually OSM-ers will find it.

Feel free to tweet, retweet, etc. I spent way too many days manually
entering all those refugee camp tags. Even asked the leaders in the
CrisisCamp OSM room about how to tag more efficiently, and was told
such efficiencies wouldn't be available until Potlatch 2.0. When I
discovered Potlatch presets (right there in the documentation, but not
on the SVG summary page), I thought "aaahhhh," and then wanted to
share the good news.

Here, for reference, is the blurb I sent to crisismappers:

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Here's another new video tutorial:

OSM Tutorial - Using the Keyboard to Save Presets in Potlatch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAnt2RSaEEA&fmt=18

The 55-second video will help you to work more efficiently in
OpenStreetMap.org's Potlatch Editor.

Reference:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch/Keyboard_shortcuts

Enjoy,

Margie
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:28 AM, David Ellams
<osmlists at dellams.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> Just a quick plea - please, please attribute your sources when mapping in
> Haiti, as elsewhere.
>
> I have recently been doing a little work on updating the remaining missing
> street names in Port-au-Prince, and I have discovered many apparent errors
> in the process, and corrected these once I am confident they are errors.
> However, in so many cases I have found neither the imagery source nor the
> source for street names is acknowledged. This makes life really difficult -
> sources can conflict and in these situations, I do not want to alter
> anything to match older or less reliable sources. I am therefore left with a
> choice of trying to contact the mapper responsible to find out their source
> or just taking the bullish approach of changing it anyway. I normally take
> the former route, but I know some others take the latter, on the grounds
> that unverifiable data is not much use. We cannot take the view that "there
> is only one source for this data anyway", because new and better sources are
> being opened up all the time, and will be in the future.
>
> (In addition, of course, many of these sources have granted permission for
> use in OSM on the condition of attribution.)
>
> I'm sure I too have forgotten the occasional source tag, but I really do
> try, and I ask you to do the same. It really doesn't take long - learn about
> the presets of your chosen editor. If you use potlatch, - see Margie's
> excellent short video:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAnt2RSaEEA&fmt=18
>
> Cheers
> David (davespod)
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