[OSM-talk] Redaction of some Afghanistan data

[Warin]

On 1/04/2016 9:42 AM, Paul Norman wrote:
> The Data Working Group recently had to perform a large redaction in
> Afghanistan of data from two mappers who had used Google. A redaction is
> where an object is removed from the current data and previous versions
> are hidden in the API. They are done to hide data that cannot be shown
> for copyright or other legal reasons.
>
> There is no active local mailing list, so I'm letting talk@ know
> instead. If you are in touch with local mappers, you can forward this to
> them. It looks like most of the data that had to be removed was new
> data, which will have been removed cleanly without needing any
> additional cleanup.
>
> If you have concerns about the source that was used for mapping
> something, please contact the Data Working Group at
> data at osmfoundation.org with information, including links to changesets.
> It helps if you also start a changeset discussion on one of the
> changesets nicely asking the mapper for more information about what they
> did.
>
> It is much better to catch this type of problem early, simplifying and
> reducing the cleanup work required.

The inclusion of a source statement in each change set of at least 3 
characters would be a helpfull start?
Did these change sets have any indication of the source?

>
> Paul Norman
>
> For the Data Working Group
>
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