[Rebuild] Getting underway before 1st April

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to float the idea that we make certain bboxes ODbL/CT-compliant
> in the next two months - i.e. before 1st April.

Agreed.  And we're taking a step in a similar direction in Canada.
Two of the three most-prolific decliner accounts in Canada are in
large part, imports.  Large portions of those imports have not been
subsequently edited.  This was discussed on talk-ca@ and #osm-ca and
we decided to do a test-delete of that data where
1) it was created by either of the two accounts,
2) still v1,
3) not natural=coastline.

We expect that this will remove more than 50% of the RED data in
Canada.  Additional expected benefits are that:
1) remaining tainted data should be easier to spot and reconcile
2) remapper time is directed to recovering interesting data rather
than simply undoing an empty import.
3) we'll all have a chance to review this process and refine it in
other areas and cases.

This removal is currently in progress, so we'll have comments on it over time.

Thanks very much to woodpeck_fixbot for running the removal.

Best regards,
Richard