Re: [OSM-talk] Making dealing with license problem objects easier

2012-01-10 Thread Ed Avis
David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com writes: I'm not saying I could have mapped it, but I have checked what changed and explicitly verified it against independent sources. So if somebody was tracing from Google Maps, but then you checked from independent sources and verified the information

[OSM-talk] Making dealing with license problem objects easier

2012-01-04 Thread David Earl
Now that we have Frederik's very helpful license vulnerability tool, I've been doing some pre-emptive work in my area. Without re-opening old wounds about the merit or otherwise of the forthcoming data loss, I'd like to make some suggestions arising out of the patterns I've noticed that mean

Re: [OSM-talk] Making dealing with license problem objects easier

2012-01-04 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:50 AM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: Suggestion 1 I'd like to suggest we invent a tag which says I have checked this object for changes by non-accepters and personally verified it against sources independent of the changes of those non-accepters who

Re: [OSM-talk] Making dealing with license problem objects easier

2012-01-04 Thread David Earl
On 04/01/2012 16:09, Toby Murray wrote: This already exists in the form of the odbl=clean tag. Anything tagged this way will show up green in Frederik's map. It is documented here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Remapping/License_Change_View_on_OSM_Inspector Thanks, I hadn't seen that.

Re: [OSM-talk] Making dealing with license problem objects easier

2012-01-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
David, On 01/04/12 16:50, David Earl wrote: Suggestion 1 I'd like to suggest we invent a tag which says I have checked this object for changes by non-accepters and personally verified it against sources independent of the changes of those non-accepters who made changes, so that when that tag

Re: [OSM-talk] Making dealing with license problem objects easier

2012-01-04 Thread David Earl
On 04/01/2012 16:34, Frederik Ramm wrote: odbl=clean is that tag, and already used by OSMI and editors. It is a bit questionable to use it on stuff that I could have mapped myself. I suggest that odbl=clean only be added if you have indeed modified the object in a way that you believe