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

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>
>> 1) I look at the license status of the area in the course of my normal
>> mapping. While mapping, I make sure to clean problematic objects
>> rather than just editing them. Every mapper should be aware of the
>> license status of objects while mapping.  If you ignore this, you
>> might be making improvements that will be discarded in the license
>> change.
>
> Is there a link showing how to accomplish this? I understand the
> difference between compliant and non-compliance, but how do you
> "modify" the existing node/way enough to make it compliant? Do I need
> to delete the non-compliant and completely replace it?

Some great tools are listed here.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Remapping

Some principles are listed here.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/What_is_clean%3F

In short. If it was created by a non-agreeing account; remove it and
remap from a compatible source.  If it was modified by a non-agreeing
account; remove the aspect they modified.  There are edge-cases of
course.  This is OSM.  :-)

Let's discuss this in more detail but break it off  to another thread?