ael wrote:
"Otherwise, subsequent mappers come along with far
inferior information and wipe out my many hours/days/years of careful
work on the ground ...  bitter experience as above shows that source tags
are *necessary* to indicate: "please don't modify
unless you have better information".

I agree totally.
That is a major reason I persist in my practice; other mappers will know
where my data comes from and would be, I expect, less likely to replace it
unless they have an obviously better source

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Tom Pfeifer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 22.07.2017 20:51, Simon Poole wrote:
>
> [...] Which in turn implies
>> that if you are using more than one third party data source and it is
>> not clear what you have been deriving from which source, you should be
>> creating separate changesets.
>>
>
> Separating changesets would be a rare case in which there is a very exotic
> source.
>
> Normally you can, in the same changeset, specify in the source tag e.g.
> "ground survey (name); DOP 2016 (geometry)". Even when saying "ground
> survey; DOP 2016" it would be obvious which source is for what.
>
> tom
>
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