Mike, > - There are subjective criteria. The removal of 100 hospital nodes > may be far worse than than the removal of several million import > points. ... Or the loss of a repeatable import may be bad because > folks have editted over the top. It is difficult to judge whether this > has a positive or negative bias overall.
this is quite important perspective. In the Czech Republic, we're facing significant frustration by the community when they see what happens to the map after deletion of the data. We had at least two very active mappers who did lot of work (both imports and manual work), who declined to accept ODBL (our understanding is namely because they don't like the concept of changing the license on an established project). We're trying to solve at least part of this problem by adopting their imports, but it is not going to be very easy. The problem is that their work served as a bases for work of other people and therefore we will lose significant amount of work by the people who agreed to the change. And these people just get frustrated and want to leave the community - I'm talking, e.g., about a guy who contributed 2% of total volume of data in the Czech Republic by himself, so it's not anything marginal... So if it affects highway=* (which are very important for many reasons and often hard to map, esp. tracks and paths under foliage), waterways (which are hard to map as these are also often under foliage), and landuse outside of imports (again, lot of manual work), my suggestion is that we need to get significantly over 99% preservation to justify the license change. Petr _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk