Re: [talk-au] maxspeed removal

2012-01-09 Thread SomeoneElse
Steve Bennett wrote: Btw, how does Potlatch etc determine whether an object is "tainted"? Does it look at all the changesets that affect the object, or is it able to determine the source of each key? I believe that it uses Frederik's quick history service here: http://wtfe.gryph.de/ One other

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Mass revert now??

2012-01-09 Thread Sam Couter
Steve Bennett wrote: > This is the OSM community here. We're on an OSM mailing list. From the > perspective of this community, John Smith's contributions are not > usable. Certainly, he's made a valuable contribution to other > communities elsewhere - but not this one. The complaint was that this

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Mass revert now??

2012-01-09 Thread Christoph Donges
I agree. I ticked the box but it was blackmail by osm. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Sam Couter wrote: > Steve Bennett wrote: > > Refusing to accept the outcome (or rather, persisting vainly with the > > idea that maybe it will change), and refusing to accept the CTs > > amounts to blackmai

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Mass revert now??

2012-01-09 Thread Jim Croft
lol again... you've gotta love argument by analogy... :) jim On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Sam Couter wrote: > Really, you told him his car's not worth shit and you don't want it > unless he also joins Family First. Even though yesterday you said you'd > like it and he should get it for you

[talk-au] maxspeed removal

2012-01-09 Thread cam_daw
It's almost impossible to see what data will remain / will be removed post april 1st when there's the well-intensioned maxspeed tags all over the place. It makes it very difficult for me to replace non odbl data with my own odbl surveys / tracings before it all gets deleted in April. I'd much rath

Re: [talk-au] maxspeed removal

2012-01-09 Thread Nick Hocking
Cam wrote "I'd prefer if all the maxspeed changesets be reverted now so atleast some odbl tools can show ways being green rather than mostly all orange." Hi Cam, I'm confident that these edits will change from orange to yellow in the very near future. This will mean that they are considered ha

Re: [talk-au] maxspeed removal

2012-01-09 Thread Nick Hocking
PS - quite a few declines spent a lot of time just tracing " from nearmap but never bothered to go out and collect the information "on the ground" such as street names etc. Most of this is still untagged and since it will disappear in April and needs survey anyway, maybe me should delete them now

Re: [talk-au] maxspeed removal

2012-01-09 Thread David Findlay
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:56:22 PM Nick Hocking wrote: > PS - quite a few declines spent a lot of time just tracing " from > nearmap but never bothered to go out and collect the information > "on the ground" such as street names etc. I've been gps surveying and getting a lot of street names and taggi

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Mass revert now??

2012-01-09 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Sam Couter wrote: > The community has rejected the contributions. They were made, in > good faith, under the licence that had been agreed to at the time. Look, I don't think there's anyone on this list that particularly likes the way the license change was handled

[talk-au] Splitter decliners

2012-01-09 Thread Nick Hocking
If a decliner splits a ,mappers road then he/she becomes the version 1 owner of that mappers copyrightable information for the rest of the way. I think it's morally (maybe even legally) wrong for the decliner to now extinguish this copyright by refusing to relicence it. Since I think it unlikely