Hi. If it is possible, rolling back the change set (and a couple of other similar ones) just on their own would be a good start.
Can this be done if it was not the last change on a way? - Ben Kelley. Ben Kelley On Jan 6, 2012 4:43 AM, "Michael Collinson" <[email protected]> wrote: > The License Working Group will shortly be encouraging folks to go out and > remap areas affected by new contributor terms decliners. However, I am > mostly speaking here as in individual mapper in Australia. Cleaning up my > areas in Sweden and the UK was easy. I then looked at Ultimo in Sydney, > which I 100% completed in 2006. However, all my edits are overlain by many > layers from just two declined contributors. Same in several other Sydney > suburbs, same in Katoomba, same in Port Macquarie, and by one contributor > in Toowoomba and Dalby. I looked at doing a revert for the street where I > lived but found that just one "Fixed Stuff" changeset was affecting 12,576 > different ways! So as I might affect other folks, I abandoned the idea for > now. Remapping is pointless until I can get my original contributions back. > Also, I cannot visualise areas of real issues, (OSM Inspector, see > bottom), because of a huge number of very trivial changes that can easily > be got rid of. I guess a lot of other folk are in the same position. > > So here is my question to all of us who are still contributing. Rather > than waiting, should we ask for Australia data contributed by decliners to > be carefully removed en masse in the near future? I am happy for an area > where I am more or less the sole continuing contributor to be used as a > test. > > I see a number of options to explore for technical doability. > > 1) Just roll back the last edits of anyone who has specifically declined. > > 2) Do the full clean now instead of March. This has the drawback that it > sweeps away folks who may still say yes. There are about 60 folks who have > created more than 1,000 nodes who have not yet responded. > > 3) Just do highways. Interestingly, the Australian stats at > http://odbl.poole.ch/ suggests that there is not much impairment outside > highways, i.e. some decliners have been massively editing other folks > highway contributions but not much else. > > Mike > > > PS OSM Inspector License Change View. If you want to get an idea of what > is affected, try this tool. The rules are still being tweaked but it is > pretty good: > > http://tools.geofabrik.de/**osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=136.69336&** > lat=-26.83695&zoom=4&opacity=**0.98&overlays=overview,wtfe_** > point_clean,wtfe_line_clean,**wtfe_point_harmless,wtfe_line_** > harmless,wtfe_point_modified,**wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_** > line_modified,wtfe_point_**created,wtfe_line_created_cp,** > wtfe_line_created<http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=136.69336&lat=-26.83695&zoom=4&opacity=0.98&overlays=overview,wtfe_point_clean,wtfe_line_clean,wtfe_point_harmless,wtfe_line_harmless,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_created_cp,wtfe_line_created> > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-au<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au> >
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