[OSM-talk] odbl=clean usage

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 11:49:00 GMT 2012


It's my view that odbl=clean is essentially a loophole - that is, if the 
OSMF actually pays attention to it when mass-reverting. But given that 
it seems to be accepted, I'm wondering about the following case:

A non-agreeing mapper changes a bunch of roads from residential to 
secondary, using essentially an algorithmic approach (a certain subset 
of the state highway system).
Several years later, I go through and create relations for these routes, 
as well as demoting some of the less-major ones to tertiary.

If the mass-revert were to go forward now, those that I changed would 
remain tertiary, while those I didn't would go back to residential (as 
imported from TIGER). This is obviously not an ideal state of affairs.

So my question is whether this would be an appropriate usage of 
odbl=clean. In other words, if that mapper had not changed it from 
residential to secondary, would I have done the same? If so, can I add 
the tag?

(Apologies if this belongs in tagging, since it's about use of a tag.)



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