Quoting David Murn <da...@incanberra.com.au>:
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 09:29 +1000, Mark Pulley wrote:
Quoting John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>:
> On 20 June 2011 02:11, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote:
>> Please clarify for us the sources of these edits?
> What does it matter since I'm never going to agree to the CT...
Now you're being rude.
Actually, I would suggest it is Richard who is being rude in this
situation, or is this a new policy to ask people publically to confirm
any sources for edits they have made without a source tag (or with a
source tag that I doubt).
Maybe Richard should have asked him privately first - I was mainly
responding to John's attitude that it didn't matter.
It does matter - if you don't put a comment
then it could be construed that your edits were copied from other
sources. If
you actually did survey it, then why not say so? Also, if you abandon
OSM for FOSM, if this data is contaminated, it will also contaminate
FOSM (assuming FOSM will be using OSM CC-BY-SA data).
One can only assume that the edits were copied or derived from some
source, otherwise it would be a creative art and out-of-place for OSM.
Obviously there had to be some sort of source - the question is, what
is it? Did he go there (quite possible, as I know John does go to that
part of the country).
What do you mean 'contaminated'? It may surprise you to know that some
data that 'contaminates' OSM with regards to the ODbL, can safely exist
in current OSM and FOSM with no legal problems. If this data came from
a CC-BY-SA source and he hasnt accepted the CTs, then where is the
problem?
If that is the case, then there is no problem (and I'm not surprised)
- that's why I included several "if"s in my post.
The possible contamination could be if he copied it from a copyright
map. I am hoping that he didn't do this, but as his initial response
to Richard's question was "what does it matter", I thought that needed
clarification.
[snip] find the most pressing
issue is someone not adding a source tag for a single barrier node (plus
some other minor edits)? [snip]
This wasn't initially raised by me, so I'll let someone else answer this.
David
Mark P.
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