[OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 12/27/11 14:53, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>> * treat any tags contributed by a non-agreeing mapper as harmless if
>>   these tags are not present any more in the current version
>
> Did you manage to address your example of a user fixing a typo in the
> tag name (individually or for a large number of objects)?

No. It would be possible to say that a constribution is only harmless if 
neither the tag nor the value are present in the final version but then 
there will again be examples where this is wrong.

I think a good way to deal with such "but what if..." situations is not 
to make sure they never occur, but to produce some kind of quantitative 
assessment. If we have reason to believe that the new rules produce 
something like a hundred errors then who cares. If it's more like a 
million then it needs to be fixed ;)

> A similar case is where a mapper adds many ways in a city, but another
> mapper thinks all of the objects were misaligned and offsets them en
> masse.  Is your assumption here also that this takes all IP away from
> the first mapper?

Currently in OSMI, this mapper will continue to be viewed as the author 
of all the ways; it is just the node positions that he got wrong and 
where his contribution is overwritten by the change.

But this is something that Russ questioned this morning, see my other 
message on legal-talk.

Bye
Frederik