[Talk-us] Tags for US Forest Service GIS Trail Data

Dave Hansen dave at sr71.net
Thu Mar 5 16:03:01 GMT 2009


On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 10:48 -0500, Russ Nelson wrote:
> > Also, are there tags to keep information about metadata like the
> > data source (i.e. gps, digitized, etc)?
> 
> Chris and Dave have set a standard for imports that says that existing
> metadata should be preserved.  As long as you do that, anybody who
> comes along later can turn that metadata into OSM tags. 

Yeah, I'd say please preserve as much as you can *especially* so people
can track the origin of the data. 

-- Dave





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