[OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

[John Smith]

2009/9/25 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>> It is really important for us aussie mappers to know whether a road has been
>> genuiinely surveyed - that is someone went there
>> as opposed to traced from Landsat images.
>
> Then ask people to use highway=road if they don't survey from the ground.

How would that help?

If the road exists and we know what it is it should appear on OSM as
such, that doesn't tell us the quality of the data.

> Tag "source" is not important

I think that's how we got to this point in the first place, some
people do place considerable weight on information stored in source
tags.