[OSM-talk] Very not happy

[Lester Caine]

Maetma 91 wrote:
> Today I look at the map and I see that lots road where I live is gone.
> Today I look at the map and I see that lot work I do last year is gone.
> Today I am VERY NOT HAPPY.
>
> I am sorry but now I will use map from Google  because they do not
> remove road or brake people work.
>
> Before I say to my friends "Use Openstreetmap it is cool" and today
> they laugh me and say "Openstreetmap is shit, it miss lots roads"
>
> This night I spend lot time repairing what you break from the map but
> it is endless because you remove a lot.
>
> You say France is 99.9% correct. This is lie. There are lots road
> gone. Map is no use now.

Maetma 91 we have been fighting for over a year now to get people to fix areas 
of the map where there were problems with the sources of the data. In the UK we 
have remapped large areas where the original contributor refused to allow their 
work to be more openly licensed. Areas that either needed the author to approve 
the new license or we needed to identify alternative data had been advertised 
for a long time, but unfortunately in a lot of cases nobody came forward to sort 
the problem data.

I'm pleased to say that I addressed a large area around here and cleaned the 
data, but we need local contributor to do that in their own area. The new map 
data is now totally compliant with the more open license and any new data will 
have to remain complaint. So the only reason data has gone missing is because 
nobody has bothered to clean it up :(

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