This is good news. We have known it was coming, and once complete we will
be able to edit anywhere without having to check the status of the earlier
versions of nodes/ways (ie without the risk that any edits we make are
later redacted).
If anyone wants to have a quick look at where the biggest impact will be
take a look on:
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=-1.76466&lat=52.49277&zoom=10&overlays=overview,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_created_cp,wtfe_line_created
Rob
On , Andy Robinson <ajrli...@gmail.com> wrote:
In case anyone is not on talk-gb
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net]
> Sent: 09 July 2012 21:49
> To: talk-gb OSM List (E-mail); talk...@openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-GB] Licence redaction ready to begin
>
> Hello all,
>
> This is a special heads-up to the British and Irish mailing lists that
the
licence
> change bot is ready to get underway, starting in our areas.
>
> Starting this week, we will be 'redacting' the contributions (less than
> 1%) from the live database that are not compatible with the new
Contributor
> Terms and Open Database Licence (ODbL). We are expecting to begin on
> _Wednesday_ (11th July) assuming a couple of final setup details are
> completed by then.
>
> The bot will run with Ireland first of all, then the UK, then the rest
of
the
> world. Consequently please expect to see a few changes to your local
area
> later this week.
>
> There will be _no_ API outage and no other interruption to editing, but
> please do save your edits frequently to minimise the likelihood of
conflict.
> Once the bot has finished the UK we'll send a further message to both
these
> areas.
>
> When the whole world is complete, we will be ready to distribute data
under
> the ODbL and we'll advise of that with a separate announcement.
> The final pre-redaction dataset available under CC-BY-SA has now been
> generated at http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-120704.osm.bz2 .
> Where data has been redacted, any attempt to access it from the API or
the
> site's 'browse' pages will return a response to that effect.
>
> Test runs have shown that the bot is functioning as we want it to, but
we
will
> of course be monitoring its progress. We are currently expecting it to
take in
> the order of one month to complete the whole world; given the many
> variables I'm afraid we can't give a more precise steer yet, but we'll
aim
to
> keep everyone updated as it runs.
>
> As you know we were expecting this to start just after 1st April and the
> complexity of the task incurred the delay. Thank you all very much for
your
> patience in waiting for it to get underway. Thank you especially to
those
who
> have contributed to the code, whether by patches, suggestions or just
> helping to firm up the workings.
>
> Richard
> for the OSMF board
>
>
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