[talk-au] Re-entering data to avoid licensing failure
Sam Wilson
sam at archives.org.au
Sun Dec 18 02:40:19 GMT 2011
On 2011-12-17 6:46AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Sam Wilson<sam at archives.org.au> wrote:
>> I keep well out of the whole legal/political side of OSM usually, but I'd
>> just like to ask if I should be doing anything in particular whilst editing
>> these days, before the licence change? I mean, people keep talking about
>> deleting and recreating data that's been added by decliners, and it rather
>> sounds like a fair bit of work! If I just carry on as usual, am I making
>> more work for everyone later, or is it going to be okay? I don't
>> particularly fancy having piles of my contributions removed because they're
>> building on decliners' data!
>
> If you're creating new data, then all will be fine.
>
> If you're modifying existing data, then there are a few possibilities
> I know about so far:
> 1) All the previous editors of that data accepted the CTs, so you'll be fine
> 2) Some significant editors of that data haven't and won't accept the
> CTs, so your work will be wasted
> 3) Some editors of that data haven't accepted the CTs, but their work
> can be removed without destroying the rest.
>
> The major, painful example of type 3) is John Smith's mass
> "maxspeed=50" edit, which touched tens of thousands of streets. And
> then he refused to accept the CTs, leaving a lot of streets in this
> complicated state.
>
> Short answer: it may be ok, or your work may be wasted, or you may be
> creating more work. Everything is possible!
>
> Steve
Thanks Richard and Steve for your ideas. I've started using the licence
check plugin... and now getting disheartened at the extent of the
non-agreeing data! :-(
Ah well. I rather want to keep mapping, and not wait till this is all
resolved... so I think I shall just fix (as in, recreate) those ways
with a v1 decliner, and ignore the rest for the time being. Seems silly
to be manually removing every "maxspeed=50" anyway; that's the sort of
thing the machine will do when the time comes.
Or maybe I'll just stick to the WA countryside, where there's a million
miles of completely unmapped roads! (And lots of GPS traces, and a fair
bit of high-res aerial photography.)
- Sam.
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