I add a source tag to a lot of my changesets now. The OSM site these days makes it very easy to click back and forth between changesets and objects.
I gave a talk/demo recently on how to edit OSM. I started by introducing myself and then saying "right, we are now friends. Once you've made an edit, feel free to contact me in the ways mentioned and I will happily check your edit/data works and there aren't any obvious mistakes." I'm aware that really helps people. It's why a lot of people become OSM'ers after going to a mapping party/event. And I think the teacher inviting communication with them is the way to do it. At my first mapping party I only learnt how to survey, but it helped just knowing there were real people I could contact. The other thing is that I watch my area (through the OWL viewer/rss feed) for edits, especially if they are new users. I try to contact all of them with a friendly & local message, sometimes offering them advise on what additional tags they could have used. On 20 September 2011 17:50, John Sturdy <jcg.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > > > > Even today, I would find it confusing to edit a group of objects which > have > > source tags - it would be more intuitive to put the source in the > changeset, > > That makes sense to me --- surely most changes in a changeset will > have the same source. Perhaps it could cascade / inherit, so that a > "source" attached to an individual object will override the "source" > of the changeset. > > __John > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Gregory o...@livingwithdragons.com http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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