[OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

[Niklas Cholmkvist]

Regarding adding a source to names of nodes/ways:

For example for "Klious street":
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/36115806 . I use the same
source for the nearby street "Perseus street":
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27405804 .
You can see the image hosting site I linked to (flickr).

When I was surveying in the past I took pictures of the street signs,
actually two street signs where roads meet. Then I might have walked a
bit further, and I took a picture of one of those street signs plus a
new street sign. Then I put a key=source and value=<url> with the url
being the link to the image I uploaded to my photo uploading website
of my personal choice(flickr in this matter). At the site I added my
image as CC-BY-SA to prevent incompatibility.

Kind regards,

Niklas

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Niklas Holmkvist