[Talk-GB] The state of Bristol in OSM

[Dave F.]

On 13/01/2012 20:19, Brian Prangle wrote:
> Also beware the Geofabrik tool listing data loss as "harmless" - what 
> this really mean is that the original data before the non-accepter 
> touched it won't be lost but maybe a dozen subsequent edits adding and 
> improving the data will be

Isn't that what the orange colour represents?
I thought that it referred to, say, a 'red' coloured way was joined into 
a 'clean' way. Deletion of the 'red' way would remove a node from the 
'clean' way but not erase it completely. Am I wrong?

Not sure what odbl = clean tag is meant to represent. if I tagged a 
'red' way with that tag doesn't it become exempt?

Q's

Does anyone have a template letter along the lines of 'please can you 
sign the agreement as it would mean a lot of hard work replacing your 
data' to send to those that are undecided or, more likely, unaware of 
the change? I'm crap at being polite :)

Is there a way to tell who has been contacted already out of the 
contributors who haven't signed? I don't think numerous people 
contacting a user is the best way to get him to sign on the dotted line.

Dave F.