On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Pieren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: >> My reasoning is >> that we don't store attribution for normal contributors on the >> geo-features, so we should be consistent with imports. When a >> contributor creates a new way we don't add tags to the way to say who >> contributed it, so I don't think we should add attribution tags to >> ways etc for imports. > > Really ? but for personal contributions, the attribution is already > attached to all elements with the "user" and "uid" fields. Is that not > attribution ?
Um, that's just a display. You'll notice you don't add tags to achieve that. > Here in France, many contributors use the French cadastral WMS (land > registry) and the attribution is a legal obligation in this case. If > we don't add a tag but only move it to the changeset, it will > disappear to all exports. It'll disappear if I remove the tag from the way. Is that then illegal data? > I agree that a tag "source" to all created > elements is not the best solution and I would like to find a better > one, but we cannot make the attribution invisible. My intention isn't to make it invisible, just to find a better mechanism than using tags. In a similar way to uid and user fields, we could (if decided) add the contents of the "attribution" tag from the latest changeset too. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
