Re: [Talk-us] Changing Data Attribution

2010-06-13 Thread Greg Troxel
Josh Kraayenbrink jakr...@gmail.com 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

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

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 elements

[Talk-us] Changing Data Attribution

2010-06-12 Thread Josh Kraayenbrink
This is in relation to Lars' question with attribution on nodes and ways. 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