[OSM-talk] Source tags and changesets (was ... ODbL ...)

SomeoneElse lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk
Fri Jun 17 11:36:50 BST 2011


On 17/06/2011 06:35, Ed Avis wrote:
> This is not really a technical question but one of convention: are 
> per-changeset
> source tags generally accepted practice in the project these days?

I suspect that it varies by community.  My experience locally is that 
on-the-ground mappers tend to use per-item or per-tag-where-appropriate 
source tags; the most prolific local armchair mappers tend to credit 
OSSV in a per-item source tag but that non-local armchair mappers might 
use a changeset source tag or something in chocolate teapot territory 
like a word in a changeset description.

Newbies of course don't do either because no-one's told them to (and we 
can't blame them for that).

> And is
> there a way to retrospectively add tags to existing changesets?

I think that the answer to that one is "no" (I asked a while back).



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