2009/8/8 Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk:
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Jeffrey Martindogs...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe we want different policies for different areas and different kinds of
data.
For example once all the roads are mapped we freeze the roads, but we allow
free changing
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Jeffrey Martindogs...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe we want different policies for different areas and different kinds of
data.
For example once all the roads are mapped we freeze the roads, but we allow
free changing of street names until they reach a freeze point.
This time he's invented a fictitious railway line into Great Yarmouth
This needs reverting:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2063848
added to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=GB_revert_request_log
David
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The only thing that ever worked with graffiti on the railway was painting it
over in all the obvious places. I'm afraid we just have to find a way to
undo or redo his works. In our context, obvious is anything big, and
anything new.
Richard
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Tom Hughes wrote:
Well it will have to go to the WG for that. They will doubtless start by
sending him a direct email.
Is it just me who thinks that having a wiki which is open to everybody
and doesn't have any controls over who can do what is utterly ludicrous?
Yes, I'm a trusting soul, but
Hi,
Nick Barnes wrote:
Is it just me who thinks that having a wiki which is open to everybody
and doesn't have any controls over who can do what is utterly ludicrous?
No, millions of Wikipedia contributors think it is a good thing (and
they even allow edits from people without an account) ;-)
Frederik Ramm wrote:
No, millions of Wikipedia contributors think it is a good thing (and
they even allow edits from people without an account) ;-)
Point taken, but Wikipedia isn't trying to position itself as a viable
and reliable alternative for a mission critical commercial solution (I'm
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Nick Barnesn...@thebarnesfamily.eu wrote:
To my mind, nobody ought to be able to edit live map data unless:
No, no, no - completely wrong approach. Think using Dettol
continuously to keep your house clean - most people now realise that
healthy immune systems come
I'd like to hear from the DWG on how they handle the edit wars in Cyprus.
Must be some kind of precedent?
Chris
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Hi,
Nick Barnes wrote:
Point taken, but Wikipedia isn't trying to position itself as a viable
and reliable alternative for a mission critical commercial solution (I'm
thinking about mapping for SatNav devices here).
I don't think we should either, because this leads to more control and
less
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Christopher
Osbornechris.gai...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to hear from the DWG on how they handle the edit wars in Cyprus.
Must be some kind of precedent?
Handled, past tense, I believe. I've heard that it's now resolved.
Anyway, that was a dispute, not
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Frederik Rammfrede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
Nick Barnes wrote:
Point taken, but Wikipedia isn't trying to position itself as a viable
and reliable alternative for a mission critical commercial solution (I'm
thinking about mapping for SatNav devices here).
I
these data may contain errors, you can use it at your own risk, but
you can't sue us.
This whole wikipedia comparison seems bogus to me. Kids use wikipedia to do
their homework, people don't trust their lives to it like they do with maps
every day of the week. I've used an OS map many times
Maybe stopping people moving ways (or deleting or moving individual points
in ways by more than a few metres) for the first months. I don't think I've
ever done the former (except in error), and it took me a while to realise
that Yahoo needed moving (using the spacebar), rather than the data, with
Frederik Ramm wrote:
Oh yeah, and let's also get their addresses and hang them! I am amazed
at how much hostility this Liam123 is able to provoke.
I'm not. I think it's similar to the way people react to virus writers
after their computer is infected. I've heard plenty of people suggest
that
Maybe we want different policies for different areas and different kinds of
data.
For example once all the roads are mapped we freeze the roads, but we allow
free changing of street names until they reach a freeze point.
Here in Korea I just want data and the more the better. In downtown London
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