[Talk-GB] License change & anonymous edits

[Tom Chance]

I've been looking at this handy map of objects that will (currently) be
lost on the license change:
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=12&lat=51.5032&lon=-0.068

It appears as though we'll lose most of the tube stations, along with an
awful lot of fiddly little bits of detail in London, where the database
doesn't list any user for a changeset. I assume this is a relic from the
days when we allowed anonymous edits. See, for example, Borough station:
http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=25498022

The only mention I can find of this on the wiki dismisses the issue and
inaccurately suggests these objects do in fact have a user associated with
them, so it's not a problem:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Closed_Issues#Anonymous_contributions


Should genuinely anonymous edits not be considered a-ok to switch over,
saving us all a lot of time re-creating ancient objects from scratch with
all their associated relations and attributes?

Regards,
Tom

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