On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 18:50 +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: > On 16/06/2011 18:00, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > You can also put this information in the change-set-comment. IMHO this > > is where this belongs to. AFAIK the source-tag is disputed and it is > > recommended to use the changeset comments. > > The problem with the changeset "source" tag is that there's no > granularity - one tag applies to the whole edit. Presumably the only > time that this would be valid would be an entirely armchair tracing > session with no local knowledge and no other on-the-ground evidence > (surely not recommended) or an import (which should surely afterwards be > tidied up with local knowledge anyway).
I'd go so far as to say that source tags on individual objects is too general. In my area there are a number of country lanes which I surveyed with GPS and did not have signs showing their name. Since then other contributors have added names from other sources and included a source tag. The trouble with this is that it gives the impression (unless you go digging in the history) that the whole object is from a single source. My personal preference is to use the source:name=... (or equivalent) for each different data source. It might be long winded but it's accurate! Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
