[Talk-gb-westmidlands] FW: [Talk-GB] Licence redaction ready to begin

[rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com]

This is good news. We have known it was coming, and once complete we will  
be able to edit anywhere without having to check the status of the earlier  
versions of nodes/ways (ie without the risk that any edits we make are  
later redacted).

If anyone wants to have a quick look at where the biggest impact will be  
take a look on:

http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=-1.76466&lat=52.49277&zoom=10&overlays=overview,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_created_cp,wtfe_line_created

Rob



On , Andy Robinson <ajrlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> In case anyone is not on talk-gb



> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:richard at systemeD.net]

> > Sent: 09 July 2012 21:49

> > To: talk-gb OSM List (E-mail); talk-ie at openstreetmap.org

> > Subject: [Talk-GB] Licence redaction ready to begin

> >

> > Hello all,

> >

> > This is a special heads-up to the British and Irish mailing lists that  
> the

> licence

> > change bot is ready to get underway, starting in our areas.

> >

> > Starting this week, we will be 'redacting' the contributions (less than

> > 1%) from the live database that are not compatible with the new

> Contributor

> > Terms and Open Database Licence (ODbL). We are expecting to begin on

> > _Wednesday_ (11th July) assuming a couple of final setup details are

> > completed by then.

> >

> > The bot will run with Ireland first of all, then the UK, then the rest  
> of

> the

> > world. Consequently please expect to see a few changes to your local  
> area

> > later this week.

> >

> > There will be _no_ API outage and no other interruption to editing, but

> > please do save your edits frequently to minimise the likelihood of

> conflict.

> > Once the bot has finished the UK we'll send a further message to both

> these

> > areas.

> >

> > When the whole world is complete, we will be ready to distribute data

> under

> > the ODbL and we'll advise of that with a separate announcement.

> > The final pre-redaction dataset available under CC-BY-SA has now been

> > generated at http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-120704.osm.bz2 .

> > Where data has been redacted, any attempt to access it from the API or  
> the

> > site's 'browse' pages will return a response to that effect.

> >

> > Test runs have shown that the bot is functioning as we want it to, but  
> we

> will

> > of course be monitoring its progress. We are currently expecting it to

> take in

> > the order of one month to complete the whole world; given the many

> > variables I'm afraid we can't give a more precise steer yet, but we'll  
> aim

> to

> > keep everyone updated as it runs.

> >

> > As you know we were expecting this to start just after 1st April and the

> > complexity of the task incurred the delay. Thank you all very much for

> your

> > patience in waiting for it to get underway. Thank you especially to  
> those

> who

> > have contributed to the code, whether by patches, suggestions or just

> > helping to firm up the workings.

> >

> > Richard

> > for the OSMF board

> >

> >

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