It might work, although it opens some wiki questions. I mean, at some point somewhere, I am gonna have to put probably on the wiki that thurston county gave permission to use the data so that we have it for future records.
On Wed, 2020-08-26 at 03:08 -0700, Pat Tressel wrote: > One option for both including the attribution and also not having to > worry about future mappers editing it, and hence needing to be warned > to remove an attribution, is to put the attribution in the changeset > comments, rather than in a tag. Or, to use a tag, include some > boilerplate with the attribution that says it was originally from XYZ > but they are not responsible for later changes. > > When they say changed, do they mean just the material map data -- > points, polygons, addresses? If so, removing their tags / metadata > would not constitute a change under that definition of change. > > (Semi-off-topic: Note that for a different project, if we imported > external data, we *wanted* the metadata. In particular, we wanted > any dataset / table primary key or identifier, *in case we had to > update the record with changes from the same dataset* -- we wanted to > match up the record we had with a modified record in the original > source. Likewise, if we had a change on our end, that needed to be > pushed back to the original source -- we'd need the identifier for > that as well.) > > -- Pat > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
