[Talk-GB] License change & anonymous edits

[Peter Miller]

On 4 January 2012 15:28, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:

> On 4 January 2012 12:29, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>>
>> There are no "genuinely anonymous" edits. Our database has the user id
>> and email address for everyone who made such an edit. They have received
>> the license change emails (if their address is still valid), and they can
>> log in and agree to the license change if they want.
>
>
> Ah, I don't remember having to put in an email address, but then I
> struggle to remember what I did last year let alone back in 2006/2007!
>
> Looks like we have a tube network to recreate.
>

For many features it is as easy to rebuild them as to do anything else but
junctions and railway stations are often very deeply knitted into other
features.

To replace a single node that forms a junction might involve unstitching 3
ways (for the roads), one or more administrative boundaries and also a
bunch of landuse.  A railway station may be much more complex still.

In one local case that I have already raised on this list I found a simple
junction that had been created by an anonymous user back in 2007 and had
subsequently been edited 82 times by people who had accepted the terms. Is
there no way in this case to formally 'claim' the IPR for this features on
the basis that we have moved them and edited all the surrounding features?

Regards,


Peter


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