[Rebuild] What is going to happen with object history?

[Toby Murray]

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Viesturs Zarins <viesturz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm have been following this list for some while and lately all these issues
> on resetting deleted objects coordinates come up.
>
> As far as I understand you are going to plan to upload redaction changes as
> normal changesets.
> But that means that the object history will still remain in the database,
> even if it is deleted. And somebody could just revert the changes of the
> redaction bot...
>
> Is there some additional cleanup step planned that goes into the database
> and deletes the edits from users who have not accepted the new license?
> Maybe there is some description on how exactly the redaction bot will be
> run?

There is an additional API function that has been added (I think a
while ago but it hasn't actually been used yet) to "redact" an object,
not just delete it. This hides things permanently. This function
requires special permission for the user who is attempting to run it
so it isn't available to most mappers. But this is what the license
bot will use. Changes have also been made to the website to reflect
this new "redacted" status as you can see here:

http://redaction.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/573785524/history

Toby