-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 80n wrote: | There's potential for conflicts over things other than just names: | | | A solution that worked just for names would not deal with all possibilities.
There are 2 parts to the problem: 1. Technical: How do we stop people putting the wrong data. 2. Social: How do the adminstrators decide what the right data is. I think that Gerv's proposed technical solution of adding a boolean locked field to nodes which we update when we change the bounding boxes works for anything as a first stab. It can be improved or replaced later, with certain users having admin rights over certain BBOXes etc. The main thing is to handle this Cyprus case ASAP. Different social solutions will be needed in different circumstances, but we can consider them on a case by case basis. In order to change the name of a disputed street, I suggest we demand at least a georeferenced photograph of a street sign. | - Administrative boundaries (eg Kashmir) Hopefully where a dispute is in progress we will often be able to mark both sides of the dispute, and not have an edit war. I suppose people from one side or the other might change the tagging, then we'll have to lock the ways. | - Road classifications; some people might be tempted to lower the | classification of the road outside their house to reduce traffic "Results oriented vandalism". We'll have to lock the individual way, and again require photographic evidence that the state has been lowered. | - Footpaths - disputed rights of access to farmland etc | - Private roads and driveways If they are private they should be marked private. I don't think there will be edit wars over them. | - Military buildings and secure facilities I think that if a Government wants us to remove something, we should probably accept for the time being. We're not a political movement about exposing secret government facilities, we are about getting maps of the places people want to visit every day. It's possible that we could open dialogues with some governments, and turn that into useful data on the map in non-disputed parts of the country. I'm not sure about this, though. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHsu9Wz+aYVHdncI0RAlenAJ93cMXkIdn5PYEsADRYDrkIDlaBbgCglc4t kjoV2Pt7+hbBGmsiekVzdt8= =ACEY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
