[OSM-Talk-ZA] Licence Change - Help Needed

Andrew Gillespie mail at andrew.nom.za
Fri Mar 30 15:06:13 BST 2012


If I have made changes to something created by one of the users who  
have not accepted, like when they traced from sat and then I refined  
it after driving the road, will the content still be deleted?




On 30 Mar 2012, at 3:54 PM, Grant Slater wrote:

> Talk-ZA,
>
> It hasn't been discussed here, but as some of you know OpenStreetMap
> is changing from the CC BY-SA license to the Open Database License
> (ODbL) starting on Sunday.
>
> Contributors who signed up before 12th May 2010 need to agree
> otherwise the project will be unable to use their contributors and
> their contributions will be removed from the map next week.
> Contributors who signed after 12th May 2010 have already agreed while
> signing up. ;-)
>
> South Africa has very good acceptance rates of over 98% for the map  
> data.
>
> BUT! We need to track down the last few users and ask them to Agree to
> the new license by logging-in and clicking agree (or decline if they
> wish).
>
> Please help track down:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jan%20de%20Jager - Jan de Jager -
> Johannesburg
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/EDWARD%20J - Northern Suburbs in  
> Cape Town
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Carel%20Olivier - Port Elizabeth
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Gawie - Small bits all over SA
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bhonermann - JHB
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kevnewman - JHB
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/PhilipK (Case Sensitive username)  
> - JHB
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/besem - Pretoria
>
> The full list:
> http://odbl.poole.ch/south_africa_and_lesotho-20120213-20120328-poly.html
> ** Please check the list if you have multiple accounts **
>
> If the user's email address has changed and they are unable to
> login/reset password please ask them to email
> webmaster at openstreetmap.org with details and we'll get it fixed up
> ASAP.
>
> At the moment we'd lose a few areas in north Cape Town and south
> Johannesburg / Soweto.
> See: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=25.06787&lat=-28.39720&zoom=6
>
> Regards
> Grant
>
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