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

[Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed]

I hope, they will soon respond !

-ishtiaque

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Larry O'Neill <larryoneill at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
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