On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at the key name and values this looks like the date when the > external database included the object in their system. Why on earth > should we keep track of this in OSM? Doesn't seem to be a > geoinformation to me.
I've made a practice of removing all tiger:* tags, and most gnis:* tags (except feature_id) after verifying a feature. The only external data that I think belongs in OSM is a reference number (i.e. primary key, e.g. gnis:feature_id) that can be easily maintained (e.g. no tiger:tlid), and that should end if/when we have persistent IDs. And I think we shouldn't use a private namespace but put it under the ref:* namespace, which makes clear the purpose of the data. -Josh _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
