On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 08:25:43PM -0800, stevea wrote: > On Nov 16, 2020, at 7:09 PM, Seth Deegan <jayands...@gmail.com> wrote: > > May I ask why not source=*? I know it's basically depreciated, but many > > times I find myself wondering where past mappers got the info for a route > > (this happened just today). I would find it very helpful. It also doesn't > > require the tagging of all of the ways.
+1 > The source=* tag is largely deprecated by use of changeset comments > indicating the source of elements in that changeset. The idea that changeset comments can in any way replace the source tag is in MHO ridiculous. In even a small changeset, there are typically a whole range of sources for different elements. It is just too coarse-grained to be useful. Maybe for armchair mappers who only have one source, updating data that has only ever been armchair mapped it could be adequate. ael _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
