[Talk-GB] 'historic' county boundaries added to the database

[Brian Prangle]

I've not participated in this debate because I have no strong views either
way and no specialist knowledge to contribute. However I don't think a
decision has been reached here as there are roughly equal numbers for and
against and those  "just commenting" from a thread population of 17 -
hardly representative of the UK OSM community.

I'd like to develp Colin's emphasis on process on how we can arrive at a
decision and what follows from that decision and ifany of  you see a role
for the UK Chapter in all of this

We can have a Loomio vote but I would suggest we set a minimum number of
voters for it to be seen as representing the UK community. Might I suggest
60?  I think that's roughly the number of  users editing the map daily.

If the vote is for retaining historic boundaries then we need a volunteer
(before the vote!) to document the wiki, taking on board Frederik's comments
If the vote is for not having them then I suggest a two stage process:
1. All new edits get reverted
2. A plan is drawn up for retaining all the current data by migrating it to
OHM and then deleting it from OSM.  That respects all the hard work by
Sean. Again identified before the vote takes place! (Might I suggest that
those complaining loudest consider stepping forward to do this?)

If we can't get volunteers for these processes then I suggest a vote is not
worthwhile

Regards

Brian

On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 22:53, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27/08/18 06:05, Martin Wynne wrote:
> >> I don't think it's for those who have mapped something in OSM to
> >> demonstrate majority support for its retention. I think it is for those
> >> seeking to have others' contributions removed to demonstrate a clear
> >> consensus in favour of deletion.
> >
> > Should this consensus be among OSM mappers or OSM users?
> >
> >
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> OSM users can easily remove stuff in there pre filtering of OSM data. So
> it is not an issue for them.
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