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

[Simon Poole]

David

I'm not quite sure where you got your numbers from, but it is clear that in terms of outright deletions we are talking of less than 5%.

See odbl.poole.ch

Simon



David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> schrieb:

>On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Critical mass is there, at a ratio of more than a 100/1 and that is
>of
>the people who had to speak out their opinion.
>
>That's not the point. Since not making a decision is the same as
>declining
>for the purposes of data survival, deleting a quarter to a third of the
>map
>seems to me to be the project committing suicide. It will improve no
>doubt
>as time goes on, but I was seriously expecting the threshold to be in
>the
>90+% of data survival to proceed.
>
>Yes, the 100/1 means that only a tiny fraction of the red and orange is
>ideological, it's surely mostly about people who have moved on, in
>interests, email addresses or mortality who we'll just never hear from.
>If
>it were just their edits, I'd be much less concerned, but it's the way
>it
>kills everyone else afterwards. It's even more galling when they
>deleted
>the original data to make their edit, so they've effectively taken the
>earlier work away too.
>
>I'll certainly be contacting people now Frederick has provided an easy
>means to evaluate the data, but I'm not overly optimistic about people
>replying - I run a membership database and find maybe 10% of people
>change
>their email addresses each year, and half of those don't tell me, and
>that's when they've paid an annual sub to belong.
>
>Is anyone going to answer the question about the threshold? I'm not
>being
>rhetorical, I really would like to know.
>
>David
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