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

[Ian Dees]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

This is also important so that you can make a diff and update imported data
if a new, updated set of external data comes up. Also, you might be able to
send changes back to the data source.
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