[Talk-bd] Licence change data loss...

[Larry O'Neill]

Hi All,

As some of you may be aware, OSM is changing to a new license, and new
Contributer Terms.
This presnets a chalenge in terms of users that have not responded, or have
rejected the new terms.
As of April 1st, any data that hasnt been relicensed will be removed.
April 1st is a hard deadline for the license change, so any users who have
not signed on will have all of their data removed form the map.
This includes large chunks of Dhanmondi and Baridhara, for example.

There are two things we can do about this.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Asking_users_to_accept_the_ODbL
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Remapping

Obviously, asking users to accept is much easier.
So I asked Simon Poole to build a list of users that are involved, and how
many objects would be lost.
The list for Bangladesh is quite short:
http://odbl.poole.ch/bangladesh-20120213-20120229-poly.html
Orange means no decision - possibly the user is not aware. Red is a user
hat has rejected.
Does anyone want to help me with contacting undecided users?

In terms of remapping, these are two tools that show what data we are going
to lose if we do nothing:
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=90.41177&lat=23.77358&zoom=10
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=11&lat=23.76511&lon=90.42847&layers=00B0

With any hope we'll be able to clean this up, and avoid losing large
ammounts of data.
Is anyone willing to jump on board with this and get going with it?

Larry
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