[OSM-talk] Tagging the source

[Lester Caine]

Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> I am not advocating to act accordingly, but saying that in every data
> extract there must be full history (that is also attribution, to see
> who edited the stuff), or changeset information, or source-tags , or a
> source-tag on every single object might not be necessary. IMHO you
> also retain attribution if you say: data from openstreetmap.org and on
> openstreetmap.org you get all the necessary attribution info (e.g. in
> the wiki, from the API with changeset-comments, etc.).

Full history comes from the main database ... I was just advocating 'source' 
which adds to the information when one is looking at something and saying "That 
is wrong!" you may know straight away that it is a candidate to update.

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