[OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

[David Earl]

On 09/02/2012 10:23, Chris Hill wrote:
> I find this lack of respect for people's work, and for copyright law
> rather surprising and out-of-keeping with an Open project. Of course we
> cannot just take people's work just because they have not replied to an
> email or two.

Hear hear. People change email addresses and lose touch with things all 
the time - I run a mailing list of around a thousand people, and I get 
maybe a dozen change requests a month and maybe four who bounce. When I 
write to them (I have snail mail addresses too) I usually find they 
forgot to tell us. Where the onus is on someone to change it themselves, 
especially if they've moved on to other things, it doesn't happen.

 > I can't see any reason that all OSM contributors are not
 > madly remapping right now, whether from an armchair of foot/bike/car.

Many of us are. E&OE we've dealt with most of Cambridgeshire now, for 
example, with the exception of a few Cambridge colleges which are in 
hand, and a few things which need ground verification.

But it is a deeply dispiriting business, to have to re-do work you 
already did long ago, only for it to have been replace wholesale by 
someone who then hasn't ticked the box.

David