Hello, I've just discovered osm and would like to introduce myself. I live in Stoneville[1] and work at Edith Cowan University in Joondalup[2] so travel a fair distance every day (by varying routes). It seems that there has been a lot of work getting roads mapped in Perth with a lot of it sourced from Yahoo imagery but there doesn't seem to be much detail or annotation in a lot of areas. I am interested in contributing to the map in Western Australia but I'm uncertain about tagging for a lot of things. For example, I used to live in Greenmount and drove around part of the suburb to survey road names. Most of the roads don't have a source tag and most don't have gps tracks. The odd road has source=Yahoo. So I'm wondering is it worth adding source:name=survey to the roads I've named. And in general is it worth trying to remedy the lack of source information.
I've read through some pages on the wiki (in particular: Map Features, the Australian tagging guidelines and the Western Australia specific page - which seems very out of date) and I'm struggling to see a clear path. I've also read quite a few threads on this list and the main talk list and it's apparent that there isn't a consensus about consistent tagging, but I would like to know what other people on this list are doing, particularly in WA. Regards, Arie. [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-31.8722&lon=116.1686&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF(mostly unmapped) [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-31.7474&lon=115.773&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF
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