On 5 Feb 2012, at 12:51, David Earl wrote: > While several of us in Cambridgeshire have tried this, we've had very limited > success. It's hard to tell, but the problem seems to that the vast majority > of the problem people aren't receiving the emails. We have no way to contact > them.
I've been more successful here in Luxembourg by looking for the non-responders elsewhere, and personalising the messages I send. We'll be fully ODbL-ready by April. Birds of a feather flock together, and OSM contributors tend to gather in similar other places. I've gotten agreements after contacting non-responding usernames on geocaching.com, gpsies, flickr, facebook and twitter, local geek communities, or simply googling them, maybe with site:.lu or the name of the place they've mapped. When the username looks like a name, I google possible full names. The message you send is important, and the one on the wiki is terrible: it meanders in complicated legal details, demands a long answer, and fails to explain what will happen without a response. Simon Poole has something much better, which I've adapted; I try to send it in the user's native language, and to personalise it. For example, if they are into geocaching, I mention that keeping their data would be important for geocachers as well. If keeping their data will have a strong local impact, I include a link to Frederik's WTFE map or Simon's Cleanmap. The openstreetmap.lu link is simply a redirect to .org. > Subject: The COUNTRY, REGION OR PLACE OpenStreetMap Community needs your > agreement > > Hello NAME, > > You haven't been active in the OpenStreetMap project for quite a while. > > Because of that you may have missed that the last phase of the re-licensing > has started. In other words, if you do not agree to the new contributor terms > the community will have to remove and remap the data that you have > contributed in WHERE. > > Even if you don't intend to actively participate in the future, it would > still be important for all other users and mappers if you could license your > data under the new license. > > Here is the official announcement: > http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License > > You can accept the license in the profile of your OSM account or here: > http://openstreetmap.lu/user/terms > > Thanks > > Guillaume, Luxembourg With this and our remapping efforts, I believe we will achieve 100% ODbL compliance before April. http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=5.5&lat=49.9&zoom=8 shows how we are ahead of our neighbours. The majority of the mappers who remain on http://odbl.poole.ch/luxembourg-20111208-20120201-poly.html are ungooglable, haven't responded, have been remapped, aren't significant, or a selection of the above. Cheers, Guillaume _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
