The Data Working Group recently had to perform a large redaction in Afghanistan of data from two mappers who had used Google. A redaction is where an object is removed from the current data and previous versions are hidden in the API. They are done to hide data that cannot be shown for copyright or other legal reasons.
There is no active local mailing list, so I'm letting talk@ know instead. If you are in touch with local mappers, you can forward this to them. It looks like most of the data that had to be removed was new data, which will have been removed cleanly without needing any additional cleanup. If you have concerns about the source that was used for mapping something, please contact the Data Working Group at d...@osmfoundation.org with information, including links to changesets. It helps if you also start a changeset discussion on one of the changesets nicely asking the mapper for more information about what they did. It is much better to catch this type of problem early, simplifying and reducing the cleanup work required. Paul Norman For the Data Working Group _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
