That is just unbelievable! That’s all I can say….

Let’s be glad that Los Angeles isn’t this bad!

FYI the redaction bot’s user name is OSMF Redaction Account.

Looking at the OSM Inspector, some cities still look bad, but it’s best to just be optimistic about all this. At least my city (Seattle, WA) will look fine!

Glad that this is finally happening! While we will lose some data, we will be able to stop worrying about it and move on. We will have to spend time re-adding things, but hopefully that won’t be a big deal.

I don’t think it’d be a big deal to lose some building outlines to the license redaction bot. The most important thing is to retain the roads and things like restaurants, grocery stores, theaters, etc; as well as footpaths and bike paths. In my opinion, buildings don’t matter as much.

You have to have an account on the OSM wiki in order to edit pages. Note that this is not the same account as your OSM editing account.

SPAM

This looks like spam to me.

I was about to say the same thing that davespod said, that people put in “FIXME” for the name tag. To alert others that the name for something is needed, I add a “fixme=name??” tag.

Spam!

SPAM!

From my limited knowledge of Spanish, this is spam!

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Again, welcome to OSM!

And, dealing with stupid and inappropriate comments like Chriscf’s.

SPAM!!! (and you probably won’t notice an increase in business from posting this)

whoops sorry didn’t mean to post the same comment twice. Thought my first comment didn’t go through.

@chriscf If that’s so why did WorstFixer get blocked for failing to discuss imports/ scripts? Isn’t that “mandatory” to discuss?

@chriscf: how is that so when people can get blocked for things they failed to do but were “mandatory?” LIke failing to discuss an import they would be making. That’s mandatory.

Before you put this on a wiki page, you should fix the spelling of “License.” It’s not “lincense” :)

A reply to your first point: It is important to check the license status of data early on in order to see whether you should be using the data at all. Why would someone want to import Google Maps data? That’s illegal unless you have proof that you got permission to use the data, which would be hard to do.