On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:03:37 +0300, Eugene Alvin Villar <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:44 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> However it'd be nice for editors to strip it out automatically. >> > > -1 > > I don't favor editors stripping out created_by=* tags automatically > whenever > a user edits an area. These changes mask the actual edits the user makes > and > makes analyzing changesets harder. (Imagine looking at a changeset where > hundreds of ways were edited by stripping out the created_by=* tags but > only > one way had a significant change (e.g. adding oneway=yes). > > What I have been doing is to strip these created_by=* in an explicit > separate changeset and adding the tag comment="cleaned up created_by=* > tags". JOSM already strips automatically the created_by tags when uploading, but only from those objects that the user has modified. It doesn't touch any other objects that the user has downloaded and contain a created_by tag, so there will be no spam. This way the created_by tags will gradually disappear as the data is edited. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
