[OSM-talk] A super quick poll

[Dave Stubbs]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Erik Johansson <erjohan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Joseph Gentle <josephg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:39 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>>> the only way you
>>> will be happy and viral people will be happy is with parallel projects? That
>>> way us viral people will just take all your work and always have a better
>>> map.
>>
>> Forking mapping work would be bad for everyone.
>>
>> The public domain will benefit OSM.
>
> Why not, make a list of all people who want public domain, then
> download the 16GBs of planet dumps and diffs necessary to get all
> history. Analyze all history; extracting the nodes and ways that are
> contributed PD only, thus creating a subset of the planet dump which
> is PD.

Just on a technical note, that doesn't get you all the history as you
miss multi-edits per week, plus planet files didn't always include the
user. You'd need a full history dump from the database for that (and
access to the pre-0.5 node, segment and way histories too).

On the license note ffs guys, legal-talk-general i believe, where you
can continue to disagree fundamentally without bothering the rest of
us. Vote: I really don't care.

Dave