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

[Karl Newman]

Why not go all the way and say source=cesium? In all seriousness, though,
what's wrong with source=GPS as an alternative? Survey, to me, implies a
crew out with tripods and such.

Karl

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio <
jldominguez at prodevelop.es> wrote:

>  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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