Re: OpenStreetMaps now useless in a lot of areas.
Posted: 20 July 12 11:46 pm
To be clean for the forums... "Oh Bother!" ... Not my exact thoughts though
I remembered after reading this that some time ago I did get an email re licensing. Turns out I did accept at the time, however I suspect I know someone who didn't, as the area around me has also gone to pot:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.5 ... ayers=B0FT
http://goo.gl/maps/dUxJ
4 or 5 years ago, I was in touch with the main contributor for my region (and large sections of Regional NSW/SA between me and Adelaide), and she did huge amounts of work. From what I can see, I can only assume she missed the email, or declined the license, and we're back to not far off of square one!
Being lazy and not researching this much, CraigRat, do you (or anyone else here) know if there is any process in place for reinstating "redacted" works? If I can track down a former contributor and get them to accept, can they reinstate their data? I suspect it is more likely what I'm already fearing, in that they've gone with "they had their chance, and now the redaction bot has just been through and deleted" ...
All very depressing! Maybe the Google contribution model will gain legs? (hopefully not from an Open perspective) I'm thinking OSM was possibly a one-off good shot at getting such a thing done, and a lot is now wasted... I know I wouldn't be going back and redoing anything on the scale of what I can see has been deleted... Such a shame.
I remembered after reading this that some time ago I did get an email re licensing. Turns out I did accept at the time, however I suspect I know someone who didn't, as the area around me has also gone to pot:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.5 ... ayers=B0FT
http://goo.gl/maps/dUxJ
4 or 5 years ago, I was in touch with the main contributor for my region (and large sections of Regional NSW/SA between me and Adelaide), and she did huge amounts of work. From what I can see, I can only assume she missed the email, or declined the license, and we're back to not far off of square one!
Being lazy and not researching this much, CraigRat, do you (or anyone else here) know if there is any process in place for reinstating "redacted" works? If I can track down a former contributor and get them to accept, can they reinstate their data? I suspect it is more likely what I'm already fearing, in that they've gone with "they had their chance, and now the redaction bot has just been through and deleted" ...
All very depressing! Maybe the Google contribution model will gain legs? (hopefully not from an Open perspective) I'm thinking OSM was possibly a one-off good shot at getting such a thing done, and a lot is now wasted... I know I wouldn't be going back and redoing anything on the scale of what I can see has been deleted... Such a shame.