[OSM-talk] FourSquare and OSM

[Toby Murray]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If this actually happens, it will be by far the stupidest thing OSM
>> has ever done. But maybe I'm misunderstanding the meaning of that
>> phrase about "database rebuilding"?
>
> Since I'm getting some off-list snark about this, let me make clear:
>
> 1) I'm not arguing against the licence change
> 2) I am participating in remapping
> 3) I'm questioning deleting large amounts of data from our map on the
> self-imposed deadline of April 1

Yeah... the timing of this is shaping up to be very unfortunate. We've
had several high profile sites switch to using OSM since the beginning
of the year and all the PR that came along with that has put a bright
light on the project.

On the other hand, this license change has been ongoing since before I
joined the project and drawing it out even longer is going to be
painful too...

At least there is steady improvement:
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/munin.html

Toby