Good call Andy, Ya, i should make a new login for uploading CanVec data, i have been using 'geobase:Acrosscanadatrails', but that was 'back in tha day' when the list didnt know what canvec was, and called the Canada Import, 'GeoBase Import', which we now know what it is :)
In the user profile description, i'll put more source detail, as that helps other users when they see the data. HOWEVER, when im just copying-in a few features (to fill in the area im working in), i dont need to login as that 'source:user' because 'brain power' after physically being in the area, im aware of what features are 'more correct'. So having that 'attribution=*" tag helps, since there on those features. I dont think that the 'source' tag is that relevant to add. 'cause if it has 'attribution=Natural Resources Canada', we already know that it MUST HAVE been converted by a script, and MUST be the latest script of the day (changeset date/time). I think that it is essential to have the 'source=' box in josm set as a preset list of choices (to put in the changeset). .. That would help. what are other peoples definition of; How to give sufficient attribution? (mine is direct on the feature tag, as the only needed, the rest is extra) Sam On 11/20/09, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
