On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Chris Browet wrote:

>       something I noted with Merkaartor. Points which have no information at 
> all
>       (e.g. road points) also should not get created_by tags when uploaded. 
> This
>       is wasted space.
> 
> I don't know the utility of the 'created_by' in the first place, but 
> JOSM seems to create them also (or has been? the node I see is dated 
> 20080320, but JOSM do not indicate a version...)

I think Potlatch and newer JOSM's don't create these anymore. Older 
versions probably (very likely) did.

Usage: Make yout tools know. What else :-)
Without joke: Actually it may help to detect editor errors.

Ciao
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