[OSM-talk] Permission for my work

Grant Slater openstreetmap at firefishy.com
Thu Dec 15 19:28:11 GMT 2011


On 15 December 2011 17:00, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
>> Then can we get the OSM admins to split your edits into the new user
>> and old user based on their location? It would be relatively easy to
>> make a bounding box, and say "All jamesmikedupont edits outside get
>> renamed to $NEWUSER".
>
> As Richard said, I'm guessing that would require executing a raw SQL
> query. I don't think I would want to do this if I was an admin, for a
> variety of reasons. I think since Frederik has gone the route of
> enabling changeset-level overrides, this shouldn't be too hard to
> solve. Changesets have associated bounding boxes that can be combined
> with the username to get a list of changesets that can be relicensed.
> I'll try to come up with something tonight.
>

The list of the changesets is here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quick_History_Service/Changeset_Lists

/ Grant



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