[OSM-talk] License change/redaction affecting objects geometry

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

Any help in identifying areas that should be eye-balled and possibly 
cleaned up would be welcome help indeed.  It seems a small bit to attach 
a tag to any affected ways or relations from which members have been 
redacted.  This will be especially helpful when the editing tools catch 
up to show the tags presence and/or highlight what could use attention.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ

On 4/12/2012 5:01 AM, Pieren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The rebuild team is warning that the relicensing ("redaction" script)
> will unsurprisingly affect many objects geometry like ways loosing
> nodes, intersections with unconnected ways, self-intersecting
> polygons, roundabouts not round, buildings not square anymore, etc..
> ([1]).
> The question is to insert in the rebuild script some kind of reports
> or logs about such affected objects or not. First, I think it has to
> be discussed widely with the community, not only in a small group (we
> have enough conspiracy noises in this project).
> Then, I think that the best option would be to add a specific tag
> which could facilitate the remapping process for the "crowd". The tag
> should be enough self-explanatory for all, including newcomers and
> removed once the issue is fixed.
> Another option is to set-up some monitoring of the affected objects
> and consider them as 'fixed' as soon as they are touched after the
> relicensing (but that could be insufficient imho).
> Last option is to do nothing since we already have many quality
> assurance tools ([2]) monitoring the contributions.
>
> Pieren
>
>
> [1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/rebuild/2012-April/000199.html
> [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance
>
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