Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 19.03.2008, at 09:14, Lester Caine wrote: >> Which is why FOR LEGAL REASONS most decent wiki type frameworks don't >> have >> delete as an option for basic users! > > [...] > >> HOPEFULLY more countries will follow AND and New Zealand in providing >> accurate >> data but only if that data is properly managed in the framework. > > We don't manage other people's data on their behalf. We assimilate it > into the collective, and it thereby becomes everybody's data. We modify > it, delete it, replace it, change all of its properties and tags as we > see fit. If people are not happy with this then they shouldn't give us > their data.
And trash perfectly good information just because you can? We have already seen examples of the sort of 'vandalism' that disputes can cause. *IF* everybody plays nicely together then we do not have a problem, but we live in a world were people take pleasure in doing as much damage as they can and at present there is not an easy way of repairing damage *IF* someone decided to have major fun. We don't have tools for modifying contributed tracks, and contributed data COULD be handled in a similar way? A layer that can be copied much like any other overlay. The 'contributed by' would then be clearly identified and we can then go back to the source data if we find that something HAS been 'modified' for what ever reason. I suppose at the end of the day a link to the source data such as is available for TIGER data may have to do, but having everything in the one easily handleable format makes things a lot more flexible? Given the major holes in even just the UK - anything that would encourage access to other data sources should be encouraged? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
