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

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

Karl Newman wrote:
>Sent: 06 May 2008 8:58 PM
>To: Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Against source=survey
>
>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.

I use source=GPS but see no reason why source=survey wouldn't be valid. The
Ordnance Survey use GPS for their work nowadays and in reality don't
normally operate as a crew, the one man survey is the way they work. In
other words, very little difference to the way that OSMers gather data. The
principal difference is that we don't work at the +/- 3cm tolerance and a
large portion of our surveying is done kinetically.

Cheers

Andy