On 2011-12-17 6:46AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Sam Wilson<[email protected]> wrote:
I keep well out of the whole legal/political side of OSM usually, but I'd
just like to ask if I should be doing anything in particular whilst editing
these days, before the licence change? I mean, people keep talking about
deleting and recreating data that's been added by decliners, and it rather
sounds like a fair bit of work! If I just carry on as usual, am I making
more work for everyone later, or is it going to be okay? I don't
particularly fancy having piles of my contributions removed because they're
building on decliners' data!
If you're creating new data, then all will be fine.
If you're modifying existing data, then there are a few possibilities
I know about so far:
1) All the previous editors of that data accepted the CTs, so you'll be fine
2) Some significant editors of that data haven't and won't accept the
CTs, so your work will be wasted
3) Some editors of that data haven't accepted the CTs, but their work
can be removed without destroying the rest.
The major, painful example of type 3) is John Smith's mass
"maxspeed=50" edit, which touched tens of thousands of streets. And
then he refused to accept the CTs, leaving a lot of streets in this
complicated state.
Short answer: it may be ok, or your work may be wasted, or you may be
creating more work. Everything is possible!
Steve
Thanks Richard and Steve for your ideas. I've started using the licence
check plugin... and now getting disheartened at the extent of the
non-agreeing data! :-(
Ah well. I rather want to keep mapping, and not wait till this is all
resolved... so I think I shall just fix (as in, recreate) those ways
with a v1 decliner, and ignore the rest for the time being. Seems silly
to be manually removing every "maxspeed=50" anyway; that's the sort of
thing the machine will do when the time comes.
Or maybe I'll just stick to the WA countryside, where there's a million
miles of completely unmapped roads! (And lots of GPS traces, and a fair
bit of high-res aerial photography.)
- Sam.
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