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

[Ed Loach]

Andrzej wrote:

> On 13 December 2011 23:03, David Earl
> <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > What are the precise, numeric criteria for proceeding? At the
> moment even by
> > a vague definition I don't see how one could describe it as a
> critical mass.
> 
> I'm responding to this old thread because now I think whoever
> made the
> criteria could have answered the question asked here.  But really
> there's probably no answer because the date was pulled out of thin
> air.  

Well, I'm not on any committee, but I find it hard how anyone can't
think there is a critical mass. Over 95% of the data will be
retained, and this figure is increasing weekly both due to new
acceptances and of course ongoing mapping by those who have already
accepted. While there are still a large number of people who have at
one time or another signed up to the project who haven't yet
accepted, of those who have accepted or denied, over 99% have
accepted. Again the exact percentage is still increasing as efforts
are made to contact people who may have made a small number of edits
in the past and OSM don't have their current email address so they
are unaware of what is happening, but are more likely to accept than
not if they can be reached.

Anyway, I don't know whether there are any precise numeric criteria,
but if there were I would have expected 95% of data retained and 99%
of responders accepting to be fairly high criteria and ones that we
have surpassed already, so as far as I'm concerned 1st April could
just have easily been 1st January.

Ed