[OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 08/08/2010 04:39 PM, Anthony wrote:
> If the license change is important, why don't the people who want the
> license change make their own coastline, on the dev server.  This can
> be done quickly, right?  *Then* you can delete the import, and replace
> it with the one on the dev server.

I have no problem with that; the PGS coastline is probably even there in 
the data history and needs only to be retrieved.

In fact, this is exactly what I said I would do - not delete the 
existing coastline, but replace it with a version that has a suitable 
license. For some reason John Smith does not seem to share our view that 
this is a reasonable thing to do!

I think this could be a way forward for all those who fear data loss; we 
switch to ODbL but continue to publish the planet under CC-BY-SA, 
containig all the non-relicensed data, until such time that enough 
CC-BY-SA data has been replaced by ODbL data. I'm sure that, given the 
proper tools, we'd be there in a matter of months. Of course nobody is 
giong to kayak the Australian coastline just for a few meters' extra 
accuracy; but we're not going to have *no* coastline either.

Bye
Frederik