[OSM-talk] Islands that will vanish in the license change

[Paul Norman]

> From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frederik at remote.org]
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Islands that will vanish in the license change
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 04/13/2012 08:14 AM, Toby Murray wrote:
> > I downloaded all natural=coastline ways from my jxapi. Then I split
> > the world into 4 parts to make them small enough for me to open in
> > JOSM. Then I selected all objects that were last touched by an
> > accepting user and purged them from the data set. What is left is all
> > ways that were last touched by a decliner.
> 
> [...]
> 
> It is possible that the procedure outlined in this posting might also be
> of use:
> 
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2012-April/013059.html

This technique works well for smaller areas, but when I tried running the
license check plugin on a 5 GB .osm file it was unhappy. I have all the code
written to do this automatically except the logic, which I'm finding oddly
difficult.