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!

If you need any help you can ask questions on here, or at the “Help Center” (link at left).

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.

That flowchart looks very good, though I agree with some of the suggestions that other users are making. I suggest you create a page on the OSM wiki that describes this import/upload process.

I have one question though. Why do you think that people should create a separate account for uploading the data?

@iandees With all due respect, it is not that important nor necessary to to mention his bad English.

Regarding WorstFixer’s post, I really agree that OSMF needs to play a bigger role in supporting OSM. Especially with major changes that are happening, like the license change. I would have appreciated more information about the license change, and I would have appreciated it if said information was posted on the User Diaries, not just the mailing lists. Not everyone knows about them and I would say less than 25% of mappers actually subscribe to the mailing lists, and even I do not subscribe to those. Because I am not part of this clique of mailing-list subscribers, I felt like I was pretty much left in the dark about the license change.

I don’t really think that OSMF needs to have paid staff. It just needs people like WorstFixer who are committed to improving the project. And those people should listen to the advice of others, and implement their suggestions. It’s fine for those people to have actual jobs or have their own business, but they ought to be enthusiastic about volunteering their time to OSMF. And of course, improving it!

@AndrewBuck But what if the road is two ways? Would the “left” and “right be defined as the way it’s viewed on the screen?