Is there a difference between "deprecated" and "now used less frequently"?
"Deprecated" sounds pretty official, especially in our unofficious (word?) OSM society. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:55 AM, <dies38...@mypacks.net> wrote: > > Whoa! Source is a deprecated tag, having been for years?! Good grief - > the wiki has no indication that this is the case; > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source . Could someone please > confirm that source is a deprecated tag and that it should no longer be > used? --ceyockey > > You're right; the documentation didn't reflect that. > > The source tag is one of those things which has changed. We used to > stick a ton of information on the object, but as time has gone on, > we've moved metadata to the changeset. > > Another example of this would be "created_by". Older objects in OSM > have a created_by tag that indicates the editor used to create the > object. Modern editors put that information on the changeset. The > editor community has discussed making "source" a default tag in the > editor when a secondary source is used, for example if you were to > have a Bing imagery layer, "source=bing" would be automatically filled > in. > > "source" has been generally deprecated by use. Editors no longer use > them by default, and most mappers don't use them on objects. > > The fact the documentation didn't reflect that is frustrating and > confusing, but not surprising. I've fixed the documentation and added > a section about the old use. > > - Serge > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > >>From: Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> > >>Sent: Jan 1, 2013 9:31 PM > >>To: dies38...@mypacks.net > >>Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM > >> > >>Off list. > >> > >>I see you've put source and source:date tags on many objects. > >> > >>"source" on objects has been deprecated for years. > >> > >>I also see you've omitted those tags on your changesets (where they > >>should be). Sadly changesets can't be edited once they've closed, but > >>maybe you can use them in the future? > >> > >>- Serge > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org j...@gwhat.org 206-676-2347
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