On 14 April 2011 19:33, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > On 4/14/2011 2:20 PM, Grant Slater wrote: >> >> The revert script used to remove Anthony's edits (which were traced >> from Google) was a basic revert script which only used API methods. >> There were also mistakes made like reverting the items anthony had >> deleted only after most of the cleanup/improvement work had already >> been done. Live an learn. > > Even a proper reversion script will cause much collateral damage for the > cases I'm aware of. In at least one case a local mapper has passed away > and I built some more complex objects top of some of his objects. In > another case, another local mapper has done much of the road improvements > over a large area of our state. Regional routability will go back to > initial TIGER state for all practical purposes, as well as removing his > objects. >
I am sure there are going to be a few cases where difficult decisions are going to have to be made. We will not have been the only open source project to have had to make these sorts of decisions. The OSM Foundation being the legal entity which represents us will have to decide case by case (and possibly a changeset by changeset) when presented with these sorts of difficult choices. Regards Grant _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
