On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer<dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What I'm proposing is to add additional quality assurance tags. Absence of >> such tags would mean that there is no way to know how accurate data is. But >> presence of such tags would give reasonable assurance on data quality. I see >> need for two such tags: measurement method and date of data acquisition. >> So, when road width is just roughly estimated mapper would add only tag >> width. >> When road width is actually measured, tagging would look like this: >> width=6.5 >> width:method=tape >> width:date=2009-07-23 >> When width is measured on aerial photography method could be aerial and date >> would be date when photography was taken, ... > > actually there is already some people using tags like source and note > to add this kind of information. But they are few I guess.
+1 - use source:width, not width:method. It's established and documented already. As for date, I would think the date of the changeset, which is recorded automatically, should be sufficient. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
