[talk-ph] status of odbl switchover and remapping some areas

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 09:36:04 GMT 2011


Using josm's license plugin and manual eye-balling, I am listing areas
that may need eventual remapping.  Fortunately, my patch is OK.  The
list is here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines/remapping

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:54 AM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> We have a date now for the final license change [0], the date was
> initially marked as April 1, 2012.  This means that all non-odbl
> compliant data will be removed from the main osm db.  We have a few
> areas in the Philippines that are non-compliant.  This requires
> remapping and the board encourages local communities to do remapping
> before the switch.  There are tools available to detect non-compliant
> data [1] both in Potlatch2 and JOSM.  I have not tried it.
>
> I'm thinking we organize a skillshare or meeting on how we go about
> this re-mapping effort.  Anyone up for a remapping meetup Dec or
> January?
>
> [0] http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2011/11/16/odbl-progress/
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Help_preparing_for_the_license_change#Tools_to_help_you
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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cheers,
maning
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