[Talk-ca] Users in Ottawa and Geobase

[James Ewen]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:

> Provided that you have direct permission from the person who origionally
> traced those roads to change them over.  Then it's fine to swap those OSM
> roads, to add in geobase roads.   (But the whole point of our discussions is
> that we need to act as a community, and work with those local mappers who
> spent all that time, to locally decide if they want to manually adjust the
> roads to be a bit better,  they want to replace it (that decision is to be
> made by the person who originally drew in the road.  (if you cant contact
> that person, ask on the talk list, we'll try :).   And if you still cant
> reach that person, ask for help with manually adjusting.

Sam, where is this coming from? Is there somewhere in the OSM
documentation that says that the person who initially creates the way
has first right of refusal for any future edits to that data?

I haven't seen that, nor have I asked for permission to edit existing
data, nor do I expect anyone to contact me to be able to edit data
that I have entered.

James
VE6SRV