Re: [Talk-us] Changing Data Attribution

2010-06-13 Thread Zeke Farwell
Very nice. I did not know about that convention. Will use in the future for sure. Zeke On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Toby Murray wrote: > According to the Key:source page on the wiki, an object can have > multiple source tags. So if you go out and survey a TIGER road and > discover that

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS source/attribution tags

2010-06-13 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 06/13/2010 07:39 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > So if you are considering writing a bot that does > > for each node in mass > > if the node has only massgis attribution tags, and no others, delete > the tags (because surely it's either pointless and should be garbage > collected, or is

Re: [Talk-us] Changing Data Attribution

2010-06-13 Thread Toby Murray
According to the Key:source page on the wiki, an object can have multiple source tags. So if you go out and survey a TIGER road and discover that the name is incorrect you could change the name and add a "source:name=survey" tag. I guess this allows you to distinguish the source of specific element

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS source/attribution tags

2010-06-13 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > then I'd say that sounds good. > +1 -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Changing Data Attribution

2010-06-13 Thread Zeke Farwell
The way I see it, any given feature may have many components to it's data. With a road you've got the geometry, name, classification, surface, etc…. . These components may all come from one source, or they make come from several. If the road is unmodified since the TIGER import then the source of

Re: [Talk-us] Changing Data Attribution

2010-06-13 Thread Greg Troxel
Josh Kraayenbrink writes: > I have been thinking, possibly incorrectly, about attribution on data. The > Tiger import was great, but as you all know, not perfectly accurate. I have > been "reviewing" and almost all roads, ways, etc that have been imported in > my area are now corrected. The prob

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS source/attribution tags

2010-06-13 Thread Greg Troxel
Lars Ahlzen writes: > Linear features imported from MassGIS data have the appropriate source= > and attribution= tags. That makes sense. However, each individual node > has these identical tags as well, including nodes that have no other tags. > > For such nodes with no other tags, this seems re