[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: source=(survey, yahoo, gps...)]

[David Earl]

On 08/09/2009 13:16, Tobias Knerr wrote:
> Liz wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Shaun McDonald wrote:
>>> I'm not going to waste my time updating a source tag on every node,  
>>> way or relation that I touch. However I'm happy to add ti to the  
>>> changeset where it belongs.
>> It's actually quite easy in JOSM
>> you mass select them and add the tag
> 
> If mass selecting is possible, the changeset would have been the better
> place, imo. Tags on individual objects do only make sense if you need to
> add different source information for each object (or maybe even each
> tag). And that's as much work in JOSM as everywhere else.

It does differ: while most of a survey will be survey, I am also
estimating and interpolating and using landsat and joining things up
with npe. It's not a property of the changeset.

David