On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ben Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > OK worst case: Suppose that (and similar) data got deleted. Suppose there are > enough people prepared to trust OSM afterwards to re-map the parts that can > be remapped. > > What happens in the 2-3 years it takes to get back the "surveyable" data? > People who use OSM will need something else in the meantime. That's a long > time.
Depends what you mean by "use OSM". The "deleted" data would never go away, everyone would presumably still have access to existing maps, though it's anyone's guess whether sites like http://www.osmaustralia.org/ would support two versions of the maps - the live and pre-deletion versions. Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

