[Talk-ca] License upgrade readiness - contact and remapping

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Yannick Brosseau
<yannick.brosseau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> There is a huge section in my area that have no user associated to it.

Anonymous edits and anonymous accounts were permitted in OSM in the
early days.  Some of those objects still exist in the database.
History tools will show those objects as user 0.  JOSM shows them as
<new object>  iirc.

The good news is that anonymous accounts are overwhelmingly agreeing
to CT/ODbL, as are every other measurable group of OSM users.  To
preserve the anonymity of those accounts, the license status of those
objects is published as a list of okay-changesets.  This list is
updated periodically, so anonymous objects take longer to appear as
clean in the quick history service.