> From: Pieren [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 2:45 AM > Cc: Talk Openstreetmap; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction requests - the information I need > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Paul Norman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Planet dumps only include visible objects so just the deletions will > > cause the objects to not be included. > > I was thinking about older planet dumps. If I remember, Frederik made > once a complete clean-up, including in older planet files. I guess it is > harder today with so many replication files available (full dumps + > diffs). So 'bad data' are never completely removed from OSM servers. > > > If the server does store history there is the possibility of an issue. > > The proper way to fix this would be to add information about the > > redaction API calls to the replication diffs in a backwards-compatible > way. > > Yeah. Enhance the osc format is probably the best solution. Btw, is the > 'redaction API' documented somewhere ? I don't see any thing in the main > API wiki doc. Is it hiden because of the possible dammages or is it > limited to certain OSM user accounts ?
The redact action is restricted to accounts with the moderator role (basically DWG and server admins). In practice I believe I'm the only one who calls it anymore but I've never called it directly, only through the bot. https://github.com/zerebubuth/openstreetmap-license-change/blob/master/redac t_changeset.rb#L104 is how the redaction bot calls it. I'm sure the documentation needs improvement but it's a very specialized call which only one piece of software ever calls. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
