[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

[Anthony]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Nope, that doesn't really help. Anthony posted a message out of the blue
> with a before and after picture and later stated that "The board voted to
> delete my contributions, and this is the before and after."
> Later someone (who is AFAIK not a member of the OSM board) called him a
> troll and accused him of copying data from Google.

Which, by the way, I denied.  Tracing aerials does not involve copying data.

> But what really happened or what the real cause for this is is not made
> clear.
>
> So, his edits were deleted by the OSM board? Why?

I said on a mailing list that I traced from Google.  The LWG asked me
which of my edits should be deleted.  I told them none of them should
be deleted.  So naturally they deleted all of them.

> And if not only his edits were deleted, but all nodes and ways he touched
> were deleted, why? Why not his edits reverted to the previous state?

I explained this part above.  In some cases I deleted ways in order to
add new ones.  I did this quite a bit when turning TIGER roads into
dual carriageways, for instance.  So, since my edit was the first edit
for that way, there was nothing to revert to.


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:54 AM,  <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> Also, if a particular user's changes are going to be rolled back, this needs to include
> not only undoing things they added or changed but also undoing deletions.

That would likely cause even more problems.