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> On 23 March 2012 12:58, Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg@solent.ac.uk> wrote:<br><div>> ><br>> > Incidentally, is just "knowing the footpaths" evidence enough to tag with<br>> > "odbl=clean"? Or is there the risk that the footpath was created with "iffy"<br>> > sources?<br>> <br>> "Use odbl=clean to clear features which contain historic contributions<br>> from people who have not agreed to the new contributor terms [...]<br>> *and where those contributions have since been superceded or "washed<br>> out" by subsequent changes*"<br>> <br>> Emphasis mine.<br>> <br>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:odbl%3Dclean<br><br>OK may be I wasn't quite using it quite with the proper intention, although I think most of the ways I added it to have been revised in some manner.<br><br>However it's quite difficult to determine how much a ways' geometry has changed.<br><br>> <br>> Of course, I've been advising people from the beginning to avoid the<br>> tag in the first place. Since so many people are misunderstanding it,<br>> and accidentally misusing it, it has become meaningless. Therefore I<br>> don't see how it can be relied upon during the license change, and if<br>> it can't be used with confidence, there's even less point in tagging<br>> anything with it.<br><br>I think that's why I hadn't really bothered until now.<br><br>To my mind, I was generally just going to wait until things were deleted and then create my own version, but I was inspired by Nick Austin's efforts, to attempt to do something first.<br> <br></div> </div></body>
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