> A little bit more respect to the people that actually did the mapping > work would probably be a very good idea. "We're only loosing 5% of the > data" is a very, very strange attitude for me. Not because of the data > but because of the people behind that data.
Losing 5% of data will do much more damage than it looks - as we can probably assume, that the 5% would be rather randomly distributed, random 5% of objects would "disappear". Now you need to go through the remaining 95% and check/remap it, especially for areas that are already mapped "almost completely", to find out what was lost and redraw it. People will be "stuck" for weeks/months checking the data and repairing the damage - and some of them may get frustrated and leave the project. I think we should find some way to avoid deleting at all. For some transitional time (in which the data will be still under cc-by-sa but we will be collecting consent of users for ODbL) mark data coming from/derived from people uncontactable/disagreeing with license with some special tag. Let people delete these parts and redraw them from scratch (from allowed sources/existing GPS tracks, anything except the original data). Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
