[Talk-us] TIGER corrections: tagging for source of corrected data?

Alan Mintz Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.Net
Mon Jul 20 06:42:18 BST 2009


At 2009-07-19 22:36, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
> >
> > I remove the "tiger:reviewed" tag, insert (or append to) a "source"
> > tag
> > with values:
> >
> > yahoo_imagry [sic] (mis-spelled for consistency with current usage);
> > usgs_imagery;
> > image (for my own picture);
> > survey (I drove the area);
> > local_knowledge (from my own recollection);
> > local_government (local city/county/state maps or GIS system)
> > tiger_2008 (I manually consulted TIGER 2008)
> >
>
>
>If you structure the edits it maybe better to add this instead in the
>changeset comment.
>tags can be changed but changesets are readonly.
>personally I don't add this except for imports. simply because it's
>lot of additional work and there is so much to fix for tiger ....


I use it, though, to keep track of what I've actually
photographed/surveyed. I tend to do changesets by area, not theme,
so I have various different tags needed within the same changeset.

--
Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>





More information about the Talk-us mailing list