Hello everyone, In response to everyone's concerns, as stated in my action plan above, the owner of each way was contacted to ask if removal was ok. As I stated in the pm I sent that, I will only delete the way if they say that I am good to do so or if they do not respond and based on their edits are obviously not contributing members to osm. For those who do own and maintain boundary=imagery ways, I have no intention of deleting them unless you give me the ok!
Finally, I have spent the last few hours going over almost every example in the database, and I can say that the majority of these boundaries are woefully outdated and currently serve no purpose. In response to Robin > all data in the database is subject to change and will become obsolete, there is nothing > unusual in that happening here Yes that is certainly true! Couldn't agree with you more! Except in this case, Bing is constantly updating their imagery, it is not a matter of if they are going to change only when. Pieren +1 for the plugin, it is fantastic! Jaakko Helleranta The last thing I want to do is interfere with anything related to HOT or mappers in general. I have said several times, I am doing this because I love to the map and I want to remove some data that has become woefully outdated in the majority of the cases. I am mass editing nor running a bot, everything is done entirely by hand! That being said, if the boundaries still serve a useful purpose, that is your prerogative and I have no intention of removing them if told not to. I knew when I suggested this that I would get some heat so by asking the owner of each individual way, and not simply mass editing I hope to not trample on too many feet! Tl;dr I won't be removing ways without the permission of the user who last edited the way! If the last editor of the way gives me permission, I will delete the way. That being said, if you are not the last editor of the way but want the way back as it is still useful, PM me and I will certainly revert the changeset. Cheers & happy mapping, ingalls On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Stephan Knauss <o...@stephans-server.de>wrote: > Pieren writes: > >> Mapping aerial imagery boundaries into OSM has always been controversial. >> And today, we have an alternative solution with this josm plugin : >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Imagery-XML-**Bounds<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Imagery-XML-Bounds> >> > > Looks interesting, but who does maintain it for Bing? This is imagery on a > different scale than a local provider. > Does it support multipolygon functionality to correctly display > holes/islands in the data? > Stephan > > ______________________________**_________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk> >
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