On 30/01/12 23:41, LM_1 wrote:
...
That said there are other ways to ensure the goal of this suggestion -
seamless transition rather than deletions and angry/leaving
contributors.
One that comes to my mind and does not require any drastic changes
would utilise filtering feature of JOSM (and required Potlatch to
implement equivalent). Every night/week (depending on how demanding
task it would be) each incompatible object would be tagged
odbl=incompatible (server side). Editors would then make these objects
non-editable/less visible...
If API is not changed to serve the cleaned version of data, it would
be good to have at least some editor-side tool to revert selected
object to the clean state and then repair/edit it as it should be.
In my original suggestion I said that this period (remapping what has
to be deleted while still serving data under CC-BY-SA) should take a
year or two - as long as needed till all the field in
http://odbl.poole.ch/ show 99% or more. The time pressure is a false
one, there has not really been any argument why it is important to
change the licence fast.
...
Non-CT-agreers can't make changes any more, right? So the tagging of
objects odbl=incompatible would only need to be done once; the number
can never go up, only down as editors replace those features. The tag
would be visible in editors without any change (but would make it easy
for editors to highlight those features and/or warn any user editing
them) and it would make it crystal clear to all of us which features
would be removed for the ODbL version when it arrives. That seems like a
pretty good idea to me.
We're coming up towards the 5 year mark on this so nobody can accuse us
of moving too fast. Personally I'm feeling demotivated knowing that lots
of my work is likely to be removed (although I've mapped other places
from scratch, most of my edits around here have been corrections and
improvements) and I haven't added anything for months. I know more
clarity about exactly what's going to happen to the map would help me.
I know we're still hoping that some CT refusers will change their minds,
but I think we need a definitive decision at some point about exactly
what is going to be done to which features - and that point needs to be
BEFORE the license change is implemented - preferably well before.
Tagging seems the obvious way to communicate that.
Jonathan.
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