[Talk-ca] Ping John Whelan?

[john whelan]

Acting on your advice I accepted the new CT.  On looking more deeply into
the subject I note that I have retrospectively allowed OSM to license
anything I have ever added to the map in any way they wish.  Currently it is
odbl but the CT allows anything, the license seems to be an ever changing
document.

Looking at my data I have a couple of footpaths that were entered from a GPS
track and one or two other items these I'm happy to have under the new CT
but very little else.

I find it is not possible to retract my acceptance.

I have made three separate inquiries on how to get all my edits removed but
all have been ignored.

*
So I can see no other option than to remove them all manually. *


If someone else wishes to do an import from CANVEC most can be replaced
quite quickly, however I do not want to take the responsibility that OSM in
its wisdom will change the license yet again to something that is not
acceptable to CANVEC.

I also note that according to Fredrick some mappers have already been
deleting entries for people who have not accepted the CT so it seemed to be
an appropriate time to start deleting.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Cheerio John

On 6 June 2011 15:28, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> Dear John,
>
> Your edit today http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/8355694
> deleted thousands of nodes and ways, with a comment of "bixi
> bike_rental" but in fact deleted large portions of Leslie park.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-75.8392303&minlat=45.3141652&maxlon=-75.7587115&maxlat=45.3763387&box=yes
>
> You seem to have accidentally made the same mistake yesterday, with
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/8355396 and several
> other changesets which delete thousands of nodes and ways, removing
> large portions of the map in Lincoln heights,  Bel-air hieghts,
> Ottawa, etc.
>
> What's going on, John?
>
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-75.7155206&minlat=45.3971371&maxlon=-75.6772372&maxlat=45.4266653&box=yes
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-75.7155206&minlat=45.3971371&maxlon=-75.6772372&maxlat=45.4266653&box=yes
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-75.7847794&minlat=45.338809&maxlon=-75.705353&maxlat=45.3970339&box=yes
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-75.8392303&minlat=45.3141652&maxlon=-75.7587115&maxlat=45.3763387&box=yes
>
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