[OSM-talk] Redaction requests - the information I need

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 11/14/2012 11:45 AM, Pieren wrote:
>> Planet dumps only include visible objects so just the deletions will cause
>> the objects to not be included.
>
> I was thinking about older planet dumps. If I remember, Frederik made
> once a complete clean-up, including in older planet files. I guess it
> is harder today with so many replication files available (full dumps +
> diffs). So 'bad data' are never completely removed from OSM servers.

True. I think that if it were a problem we'd probably just stop 
distributing certain old planet files rather than providing patched 
versions of them.

>> If the server does store history there is the possibility of an issue. The
>> proper way to fix this would be to add information about the redaction API
>> calls to the replication diffs in a backwards-compatible way.
>
> Yeah. Enhance the osc format is probably the best solution. Btw, is
> the 'redaction API' documented somewhere ? I don't see any thing in
> the main API wiki doc. Is it hiden because of the possible dammages or
> is it limited to certain OSM user accounts ?

The redaction API is only available to users with moderator privileges, 
which is currently more or less the members of DWG.

Bye
Frederik

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