On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:45:54 +0000 Dan S <danstowell+...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ray, > > Thanks for all your efforts! To answer your questions: > > I don't think it's a good idea to go through and add the source tag to > objects, based on your own working out what the source probably was. > Very often the source IS already given, but it's in the changeset > comment=* or source=* tag, not on the object itself. Even if that > isn't the case, I don't think it's a good idea to guess. > Makes sense. The database-geek in me balks at this. And my inner-database-geek is very loud. Perhaps that means I need to learn more about the validation stuff that goes on. We will see. > About the software edits, well, it's hard to say for certain, and if > you can link to specific examples it'd help. There are often some bits > of imported data which look kinda weird, and I've been told off in the > past for deleting tags just cos they looked weird ;) - there may be a > specific deliberate reason they're there, or they may be the result of > a bad import, but in most cases the weird tags are doing no harm, and > we probably shouldn't delete them in case someone has a purpose for > them. If they're bugging you then you could look at the object > history, work out who imported them, and contact them. > Yep. I got out of the edits and wrote this and could not find the features I had seen. Will examine more closely when I see them again. thanx - ray > Best > Dan > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
