[OSM-talk] Abnormal votings on military objects in RU wiki part; PocketGIS madness

[Liz]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Komяpa wrote:
> If there's somebody who can stop that madness, please do it. Or at
> least vote in that voting.
> 

Thanks for the provision of the translated links. 
I see that there is a moral objection by some people to mapping military 
things. I can understand that some people have a fear of the old days and a 
fear of them returning, so that if they had maps of military establishments 
they would be punished.
Partly I would say to them, "do not use OSM if the maps contain things you do 
not want", but this would turn people away from OSM entirely.
Ideally they would take the OSM data and preprocess it to remove all military 
objects before using it in PocketGIS. This should lead to a solution which all 
can live with.

Apart from my inability to read Russian, merely to be able to transliterate 
Cyrillic alphabet, I don't believe that wiki voting has any value whatsoever. 
I would allow them to vote and make noise but you will be facing an edit war 
over this, which will continue no matter what the result of the vote is.

If anyone else has suggestions on a peaceful way forward - please comment.
Liz