[Talk-us] Remapping tips
Nathan Edgars II
neroute2 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 01:16:26 GMT 2012
On 2/6/2012 7:30 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> On 2/6/2012 7:06 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>>> Any remapping after April Fools will not be able to use tags added by
>>> good
>>> users to ungood objects. Any loss will be on the hands of the OSMF.
>>
>> Why not? They'll be in the history same as they are now.
> I thought the OSMF was going to delete all tainted contributions from
> the history. Otherwise they can't exactly license the complete database
> under the ODbL. (Yes, there are current examples of tainting, but
> they're pretty negligible compared to the current situation.)
It's not clear, but
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Backup_Plan seems
to indicate that it won't be a normal reversible delete/revert, but that
any ungood versions will be entirely removed from the database
("hidden/deleted").
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