[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[Richard Weait]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:00 AM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 80n wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know whether the code exists to do this yet?
>>
>> I doubt it.
>>
>>> How are way splits handled (only one half of the way will have a full
>>> history)?
>>
>> I think they can be auto-detected (i.e. where in one changeset, one way
>> suddenly loses some nodes and another springs up that uses exactly those).
>
> This quickly gets quite complex when factored across multiple generations of
> way splits.  Many roads start of as a single way that get repeatedly split
> as one way sections, bridges and other detail gets added.

A new full history dump was just published.
http://planet.openstreetmap.org/full-experimental/full-planet-100801.osm.bz2

So folks with the inspiration and ability could start coding ways to
look at the effects of users accepting and methods of displaying the
results.