[OSM-talk] [tagging] Against source=survey

Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio jldominguez at prodevelop.es
Tue May 6 20:32:30 BST 2008


The tag source=survey hides the fact that those coordinates were derived from the signal provided by a particular infrastructure: the US satellites. Maybe those ways derived from GPS tracks should be tagged source=NASA or source=Pentagon, instead of source=survey, which does not cite the true source. Just to prevent people from believing that cartography consists in switching the on/off button of a toy called Garmin...
 
Lucas
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