On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Teemu Koskinen <teemu.koski...@mbnet.fi>wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:03:37 +0300, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:44 PM, John Smith <delta_foxt...@yahoo.com> >> 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. > Ah, I see. This makes sense. Thanks for clarifying! (Now if only Potlatch and Merkaartor will do the same...)
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