Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction of some Afghanistan data
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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? I went poking around and found some of the affected changesets. Yes, the changesets had a source=Google tag. e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37579334 The problem was pointed out in several of the users' changeset comments by multiple people. Toby ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction of some Afghanistan data
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 d...@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 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Redaction of some Afghanistan data
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 d...@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. Paul Norman For the Data Working Group ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
