On 29 July 2010 08:13, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm, shouldn't we be using attribution=nearmap in that case? The two > concepts are related but not quite the same. The source is (should > be?) an internal marker for quality control, so we know where we got > the data from, the attribution should be for giving credit. > Interesting point, but the OSM wiki doesn't have much useful to say on the use of the attribution tag<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:attribution>, and does make it clear that the source tag should record the source of derivation, so using source covers both cases neatly. I suspect that, as with so many OSM tags, the intentions of the originators of the tag have been superseded by common usage :)
A similar situation exists when there is no existing source tag. If > it's a long way and I'm modifying a small part of it, I sometimes set > a tag of "source=unknown;nearmap". > I have, literally within the last five minutes, just written a bit of code to do the same; append "nearmap" to the source when changing an existing OSM entity rather than replace the source :) > > > basis of the derived data is enough attribution to comply; Potlatch does > > that automatically. > It's not totally automatic: you have to press 'b'. > Good point; I'd forgotten that... Cheers b -- Ben Last 0423 475 673 Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd
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