[Talk-us] Appalachian Trail data

[Dale Puch]

I think the best way is to make a new user for each import.  Then put the
attribution and other information like a link back to the data source on the
user page as well as a link form the imports page.

Dale

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <jgc at arkemie.com>
> wrote:
> > Le 22/05/2010 20:47, Richard Weait a écrit :
> > Thanks for explaining things this thoroughly. (Since no one had answer, I
> > had thought i'd offer my best guess, along with the link to conditions on
> > site).
> >
> > I have a remaining question : without a source tag, how does one later
> knows
> > where the data came from ?
>
> A source tag can certainly be handy for the next editor in evaluating
> data they are tempted to change.  But using a source as attribution,
> or part of a legal agreement is problematic.  for an import, source
> probably fits better in the changeset.  Also source may be implied by
> the specific import-user created for the import.
>
> > (and, by the way, many of the imports in the catalog seem to have a
> source
> > tag).
>
> Indeed they do.
>
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