Thanks Martin and Frederik for the clarification. On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/23/2016 08:19 AM, maning sambale wrote: >> I'm aware that redaction is only for DWG dedicated accounts. What's >> the best practice/criteria for redaction? > > Edits that are *reverted* will stop showing on everything that is based > on the current version of our data (map, search, routing, editors etc) > and they will also not be findable with search engines. > > But they can still be retrieved through (a) requesting the object > history from the API, (b) downloading a (current) full history planet > file, (c) downloading an older planet snapshot or planet history file, > (d) requesting the history from downstream services that store it (I > believe Overpass is such a service). > > Edits that are *redacted* (note: only non-current versions of an object > can be redacted) will be suppressed by the API and hence vanish from the > methods (a) and (b) mentioned above; they will still be accessible by > the methods (c) and (d) because we don't retroactively change old planet > files that might have contained a problematic edit. > > We will usually consider redaction if someone has uploaded content that > should remain secret (eg the location of a shelter for victims of > domestic abuse), is grossly offensive, or constitutes a large and > obvious violation of someone else's copyright. > > On minor copyright violations (user uploads 10 houses with > source=Google, we tell him that's not allowed, he says sorry and deletes > the houses again) we usually don't bother with a redaction, although if > the copyright holder were to complain we would have to execute one. (If > a copyright holder were to really really complain we'd even have to > remove old planet files and old history planets that contain the > problematic data from our servers but this hasn't happened yet.[*]) > > Redactions are more of a last resort and not a routine tool; they make > working with the data more difficult hence we try to avoid them when not > necessary. > > Bye > Frederik > > [*] There was one incident long, long ago where several old planet files > were re-written to leave out a large amount of data for a Baltic country > that had been illegaly imported. > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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