[OSM-talk] An example of the complications inherent in determining tainted ways

[Toby Murray]

Yeah, a healthy chunk of the interstates in Kansas are the same way. I
didn't go quite as deep as Nathan but this way is a relevant example:
http://osm.mapki.com/history/way.php?id=33576021

User "moonwashed" created this way by splitting it from a TIGER way.
He made several more edits to it but the last 20 versions have been by
agreeing users (including both NE2 and myself) and while that page
doesn't show node position changes, I have verified that every single
node has been moved since moonwashed last touched it. So in my mind
there is no information left in that way that is attributable to the
declining user. I would have absolutely no misgivings doing a straight
copy/paste to replace that way with an identical duplicate. But I
would rather not do so out of respect to the other CT-accepting users
who have contributed to that object.

Saying that it is up to the community to decide individual objects is
nice but I don't think there is enough time for me to evaluate every
tainted object in Kansas before April 1 and there sure as hell isn't
enough of a community here to help me with such a thankless task.
There are a few mappers in the area but if I asked them to deal with
this kind of stuff, I'm pretty sure they would run away screaming. I
doubt I can expect much outside help either since pretty much everyone
is affected and will be working in their own area first.

And as long as there is no official word from the foundation about
exactly how this change will be technically executed, we can't really
proceed in a meaningful way anyway except from trying to contact
non-responsive users, which I am doing. So as much as I really don't
really care about the license and am happy to relicense under ODbL and
even think it might be a good move, I do have some serious doubts
about the ambiguity of the process this late in the process...

Toby



On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/2011 10:25 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 12/15/2011 04:11 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>>>
>>> So why have people been recommending for months that we remap tainted
>>> objects when we still don't know what needs to be remapped?
>>
>>
>> If you prefer to wait until the exact rules are laid out for you, that's
>> your choice.
>
> Yes, I prefer only doing a make-work task once.
>
>
>> Personally I'd rather make a few educated guesses and get
>>
>> to work now.
>
> By my educated reasoning, anything from one node to the entire road is
> tainted, so it's a little hard to make a guess.
>
>
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