Hi all<div><br></div><div>I've been systematically clearing, together with Andy Robinson, Birmingham and the West Mids for a couple of weeks. We have one prolific local mapper who hasn't accepted which means a lot of work in the Black Country and Coventry. Biggest issues so far are the motorways, ways that are part of relations and non-accepters who are in fact bots which have done a lot of cleaning up of typos and mis-tags. Also beware the Geofabrik tool listing data loss as "harmless" - what this really mean is that the original data before the non-accepter touched it won't be lost but maybe a dozen subsequent edits adding and improving the data will be. So far of the dozen users I've contacted I've had one positive response. Good luck!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Brian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 January 2012 20:03, Chris Hill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osm@raggedred.net">osm@raggedred.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 13/01/12 16:36, Tom Chance wrote:<br>
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2012/1/13 Tim François <<a href="mailto:sk1ppy14@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">sk1ppy14@yahoo.co.uk</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:sk1ppy14@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">sk1ppy14@yahoo.co.uk</a>>><div class="im"><br>
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Oh bummer - didn't mean to send to Talk-GB, just the local Bristol<br>
mappers! Oh well, it's out there now...<br>
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I think it's good to get everyone thinking about this for their local area. I've only recently started to do something about it, but it can take quite a lot of time to identify and contact people, wait for them to respond (or not) and then remap if necessary.<br>
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I've started replacing the problem areas in East Yorkshire. I am waiting for a short while longer for the people who have not responded, but most of their work is countryside footpaths which may not replaced until the weather warms up and some of the mud dries out.<div class="im">
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I'd rather not find big chunks of south east London and little segments of major roads disappear overnight if I can help it.<br>
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I've also been helping a new mapper in Lincolnshire. Sadly he was improving an area that is by an undecided who hasn't responded to my contact messages. The newbie knew nothing about the potential trap he was walking into. I think we should be particularly vigilant about making sure that newbies, who know nothing about the tools out there, don't end up with their work compromised in 80 days time.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Cheers, Chris<br>
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