[OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread FK270673
Sorry, I have accidentally pressed the enter button before writing my text. That's the technical disadvantage of an old-fashioned mailing list! Currently, the LWG intends to delete all nodes ever created by decliners or non-responders. This would be detrimental for long routes, as I have

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/23/11 15:16, fk270...@fantasymail.de wrote: Currently, the LWG intends to delete all nodes ever created by decliners or non-responders. That is correct as far as I know. There is no contributor who has ever contributed even a 50% majority of nodes on these routes. However, they

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/23/2011 06:22 PM, 80n wrote: I don't see how it could be in anyone's interest to taint the map by leaving in nodes that could, just possibly, be claimed to infringe someone's rights. I part agree, part disagree with that. I don't think that our bar should be no data that could,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread Jo
It's not like it's going to be hard to recreate all this stuff.  It didn't take long to create in the first place ... when we had a fraction of the community we have now, less accurate aerial imagery and no secondary data sources to compare against. Re-mapping not only removes the license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: It's not like it's going to be hard to recreate all this stuff. It didn't take long to create in the first place and remapping it is going to be a lot of fun isn't it? Yep, exactly. It's actually surprisingly easy, especially with features such as railway lines that are easily

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] simpler reconciliation of data

2011-11-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] I do have a suggestion to help identify which tags/properties are the ones contributed by somebody who declined or who can't be reached. Now I have to go an dig in the history to check who added names and other properties,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 November 2011 05:09, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: But I think that the specific example under discussion here actually falls short of even this lowered bar. It is quite possible for me to grab a whole Way in JOSM and move it one metre to the left (which makes me the last

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2011/11/23 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: But I think that the specific example under discussion here actually falls short of even this lowered bar. It is quite possible for me to grab a whole Way in JOSM and move it one metre to the left (which makes me the last editor of, potentially,