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

[Russ Nelson]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Andy Deakin wrote:

> Would it be ok to edit the data without moving it? i.e. add extra tags
> to the data.

Well, yes, that's why the DEC Lands data has been imported without an  
immutable=yes tag.  Because, for example, we have metadata for  
forest=deciduous and forest=coniferous.  You could quite reasonably  
draw a line between two nodes (without moving them) because you  
noticed that part of the land parcel is distinctly more odiferous oops  
I mean coniferous than the rest of the parcel.  This would clearly  
meet the surveyor's concern that people running around with GPS  
receivers not move his accurately-surveyed lines.

It's all about the metadata, baby.

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