[OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

[Hillsman, Edward]

This will sound like I'm ranting, and if it does, that's not my intent. I'm really wanting to help creating additional problems. So . . .

It won't help improving and reconciling the non-CT data. But it will keep anyone else from adding (and then losing) data to features slated for deletion. Thinking in terms of a NEW user, who is already facing a steep learning curve to contribute to OSM, and who has by default accepted the new CT, and may not even know about the license change, such a person has every right to expect that his/her contributions will "stick" and not disappear next spring because s/he did not know to look first for whether it is OK to edit something already in the OSM database. "The big we" (the OSM community) do encourage people to edit/correct/update whatever is in the data, if it is incorrect or incomplete, as one of the strengths of our crowd-sourced approach to mapping. It is difficult enough getting people involved without asking them to pay attention to a problem that they did not create but that could come back to bite them. Again, I'm thinking of new users here. Ideally, if someone selects and tries to edit a feature that is subject to deletion or reversion, I would have something pop up with a brief, clear note that this contains "bad data" and should not be edited, but asking the person to create a new node/way based on their own observation, and to feel free to copy any tags that they can confirm from their own observation (for example, it  is indeed a Shell station and does indeed sell diesel).

This will involve some programming and some attention to how to explain it. But without something like this, I think that this spring we're going to lose contributors who don't know anything about this and really shouldn't have to, when their contributions disappear. I don't want that to happen.

Ed Hillsman


>Richard Weait richard at weait.com <mailto:talk%40openstreetmap.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BOSM-talk%5D%20Editing%20of%20content%20that%20will%20be%20deleted%20on%20April%201st&In-Reply-To=%3CCAGwUD5tSCMf%3DqjM5f7RXzQh_poAJAn8VeKwmrTss1Cni_z96UQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E>  wrote
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>On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:08 PM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk>> wrote:

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>> Isn't it time to block edits to non-CT content?

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>And that would allow reconciling and improving that non-CT data how?



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