Hi, > While I have the PD-user template on my user page and would encourage > like-minded folks to do the same, I feel it is mostly a political > statement than of real practical benefit.
+1 Some time in the far future I will create a "clean" mirror of OSM that contains only data never touched by people who don't do PD. This is techically possible today, although it would currently place a high load on the API as we don't allow batch downloads of history data (meaning I would have to download every object's history with a separate API call, that's roughly 300 million requests - I wonder how many of those I'd get through before being firewalled ;-)). I assume that we'll allow batch download of history sooner or later (we're not truly free if we don't), and that would make a "PD filtered" version of OSM easy. But this is really something for the distant future, and would throw open a number of questions I'd rather not discuss here and now. Until then, I guess the PD-user template is really just a political statement identifying yourself as part of the silent majority in this project ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
