2011/6/16 Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) > <gra...@dalmuti.net> wrote: >> >> and that the source tag is certainly recommended, but not enforced. > > There is no such thing as an "enforced tag" in OSM. If you choose not > to use a tag then that is your choice. Not using a source tag when > basing your mapping on an external source is a poor choice. And not > just for copyright reasons. It also lets other mappers know how much > to trust the data. When I come across data that seems like it might be > a little off to me I treat things that have a source=survey tag much > differently than things that have a source=<random import> tag.
You can also put this information in the change-set-comment. IMHO this is where this belongs to. AFAIK the source-tag is disputed and it is recommended to use the changeset comments. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk