[Talk-GB] License change & anonymous edits

[Michael Collinson]

On 10/01/2012 15:13, Peter Miller wrote:
> On 10 January 2012 13:53, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com 
> <mailto:david at frankieandshadow.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/01/2012 13:46, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>
>         Michael Collinson wrote:
>
>             +1 to Richard's suggestion odbl=clean
>
>
>         Just a tiny little clarification - this isn't something I've
>         dreamed up,
>         it's a real live tag with 9,000 occurrences in the database
>         already, and
>         which is being used by status visualisations such as OSM
>         Inspector. :)
>
>
>     Yes, the trouble is when Frederik pointed this out and referred to
>     the page, it says it is for cases where the suspect edit has been
>     wiped out, not simply verified from other sources. How can you
>     change the name from itself to itself and actually have changed
>     anything?
>
>     If odbl=clean is OK for this then that's great, but I am troubled
>     that I may go to a lot of trouble to deal with these and then find
>     they get removed anyway. The lack of clear direction is very
>     frustrating (as is the apparent need to do more work than
>     necessary). It would be so much easier if we knew for sure what
>     the rules actually are.
>
>
> That is pretty much my point also. I will do the necessary work when 
> there is a stable and reasonable description of what that work is and 
> is not and I have confidence that the description is stable.
>
> Hearing that there is disagreement on what the (as yet undocumented) 
> odbl=clean tag means and how it should be used doesn't excite me to do 
> the work yet! To help the process along I have created an simple 
> article for odbl=clean here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:odbl%3Dclean

Thanks, I can use that to publicise it. So, we need to a bandwagon and 
better closure on when/how to use.  On the technical side I see it 
appearing in OSMI graphs at http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/munin.html so 
assume we are cool on writing a technical rule for it and that in the 
rebuild it is a simple matter of just ignoring the specific 
node/way/relation ... I'd feel better with more informed technical 
corroboration though, I am out of my depth here.

Mike
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