Dear all, Paul Norman pointed this out to me.
If canvec, or other external source data is created as an osm file, with <osm version='0.6' upload='false'> instead of the ordinary <osm version="0.6"> that will protect a mapper who uses that data from a class of embarrassing accidents. When using a canvec file for reference, a mapper might have several file layers open in JOSM. Pressing upload with the wrong layer selected may upload data that was not intended or that duplicates existing data. upload="false" gives the mapper another chance to catch their error. A dialogue box is presented before uploading a layer based on a file with upload="false". To be clear, the data can still be uploaded. Another warning is offered before the upload so that the mapper can double-check the action. Do we agree that this would be an improvement to the CanVec data? Daniel, would you consider making this change for future CanVec product? Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
