On 5 February 2011 15:30, Andrew Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > Surely that can't be correct?
That is the way it was explained on one of the mailing lists a while back. I haven't seen any notice that it is going to change, though with the mushroom treatment we're getting, I could have easily missed it. The theory is that if you are improving on a previous way, it is still based on that way, and is therefore tainted, and they'd rather lose data than have stuff they're not sure of. > For example, I've surveyed an awful lot of the > Perth northern suburbs, but I started off by tracing Nearmap imagery. My > understanding is that Nearmap haven't agreed to the new licensing but They have no problem with the license, it's the CT's they have issue with (which allows the license to change later). I don't know if they've finalised them yet, though. > nevertheless I've since personally surveyed the streets, corrected > alignments, added names and changed "source=nearmap" to "source=survey". > I would understand if data and records of the original "source=nearmap" > disappeared with the license change, but the subsequent "source=survey" > edits would be able to be kept? Dropping data simply because at one time it > was in an incompatible-license state but is now no longer sounds incredibly > destructive to me. Well, yes. This is one reason I've stopped putting data in, if I don't know the original source of the ways I'm working on. If you want to be sure your changes can be kept, and you know the original way is bad, you could delete it entirely and draw your own. > Is what's going to happen documented anywhere? I've had a poke around the > wiki, but can't see anything relevant to how the data is being handled. There's various stuff on the OSMF section somewhere, but it's not easy to find. Mostly I've stumbled across it from various links people have dropped in different mailing lists. And most of that seems to be out of date, anyway (meeting minutes, etc). If there's a simple, laid out roadmap anywhere, I haven't seen it. The closest I saw had a six week plan, starting about this time last year - it lasted about a week. Stephen _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
