[OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Mon Mar 16 17:54:36 GMT 2009


On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 17:35 +0000, Andy Deakin wrote:
> Would it be ok to edit the data without moving it? i.e. add extra tags 
> to the data.

Of course it is okay to add tags.  It's okay to move it too, like
anything else in OSM.  The source = "DEC is a source with good tools and
a high opinion of their data" tag is enough to suggest that a person be
pretty sure before moving it.  

Adding a note = "No, really, we know this data is perfect and you should
never mess with our precioussssss" tag should help get the message
across to those convinced that they know better than the source.  

Of course uploading / importing with a purpose-built user for the
dataset would also tip off the unwary.  How about user = omniscient DEC
import v1.0? 

Users working in the area should have enough clues from these existing
tags to understand the matter and then decide based on their good
judgement to edit or not.  The idea that some additional tag should be
or would be used to lockout editors seems silly to me.  






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