[OSM-talk] Very not happy

Daniel Neugebauer mailinglists at energiequant.de
Sat Jul 21 12:27:27 BST 2012


On 07/21/2012 12:20 AM, Maetma 91 wrote:
> Today I look at the map and I see that lot work I do last year is gone.

Did you accept the license change? If you did, someone else may have
done larger changes to your work or may have removed and replaced it
with something else (but you didn't notice). Or the redaction bot may
have had some error...

I didn't read about the redaction being run until yesterday, as I spent
last week in hospital and also had some very busy weeks before. I'm not
happy about it myself, but at some point it had to be done and it didn't
come unannounced. I live in Berlin, Germany and some bigger spots went
missing here as well but surprisingly it's not that serious and mostly
can be easily repaired. Details (like ATMs, banks, bars, ...) are harder
to replace than streets, parks and buildings but maybe it's not bad as
those details may have been needing an update anyway. I already fixed
some minor objects yesterday that went missing around the hospital I was
in and may re-add some more stuff today.

I suppose, the larger damage (parks, sights, main roads) will be
repaired quickly. If I think back at how Berlin looked in OSM only a few
years ago and how fast it improved, the wound inflicted by license
redaction may look severe but will heal fast enough. What OSM lost for
the moment is mainly commercial usability. In my opinion, every project
or company using OSM data should have been advised to temporarily freeze
their databases before redaction began, but I don't know if that happened.



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