On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:55 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Whoa! Source is a deprecated tag, having been for years?! Good grief - the > wiki has no indication that this is the case; > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source . Could someone please confirm > that source is a deprecated tag and that it should no longer be used? > --ceyockey
You're right; the documentation didn't reflect that. The source tag is one of those things which has changed. We used to stick a ton of information on the object, but as time has gone on, we've moved metadata to the changeset. Another example of this would be "created_by". Older objects in OSM have a created_by tag that indicates the editor used to create the object. Modern editors put that information on the changeset. The editor community has discussed making "source" a default tag in the editor when a secondary source is used, for example if you were to have a Bing imagery layer, "source=bing" would be automatically filled in. "source" has been generally deprecated by use. Editors no longer use them by default, and most mappers don't use them on objects. The fact the documentation didn't reflect that is frustrating and confusing, but not surprising. I've fixed the documentation and added a section about the old use. - Serge > > > -----Original Message----- >>From: Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> >>Sent: Jan 1, 2013 9:31 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM >> >>Off list. >> >>I see you've put source and source:date tags on many objects. >> >>"source" on objects has been deprecated for years. >> >>I also see you've omitted those tags on your changesets (where they >>should be). Sadly changesets can't be edited once they've closed, but >>maybe you can use them in the future? >> >>- Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
