Open Database License change on 1. April 2012

Mr_Israel · 2012-01-13T15:56:06.000Z

As you probably know we are almost in PHASE 4 of the license change process of Openstreetmap.
The implementation plan (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Implementation_Plan) shows that we will do the switch this year and that all users declined the new license are not able to access openstreetmap.org anymore.

While I expect the most readers had already accepted the new license there are still a lot of people in Israel undecided.

TOP10 of users that have not decided yet:
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Rank Name
15 talba (nodes created: 5297 / highways created: 763 )
101 ishchatul (nodes created: 8 / highways created: 1 )
105 qwerty52 (nodes created: 7 / highways created: 0)
111 Johnny5 (nodes created: 55 / highways created: 1)
115 amirli (nodes created: 41 / highways created: 15)
128 PDAC (nodes created: 62 / highways created: 6)
135 F Silver (nodes created: 34 / highways created: 0)
139 itaylevyg (nodes created: 39 / highways created: 13)
146 nitzan (nodes created: 88 / highways created: 18)
158 lioron (nodes created: 125 / highways created: 4)

Beside that the User cetest and others did disagree the license and all ways and nodes has to be remapped:

Cetest #103:
Nodes: 527 (0.03%)
Ways:452 (0.03%)
Relations: 15 (0.02%)

jkjk #159:
Nodes: 223 (0.01%)
Ways:183 (0.01%)
Relations: 8 (0.00%)

ulfl #227:
Nodes: 98 (0.00%)
Ways:88 (0.00%)
Relations: 2 (0.00%)

JohnSmith #385:
Nodes: 24 (0.00%)
Ways:14 (0.00%)
Relations: 2 (0.00%)

amai #453:
Nodes: 16 (0.00%)
Ways:11 (0.00%)
Relations: 1 (0.00%)

Stefan de Konink #522:
Nodes: 10 (0.00%
Ways: 0
Relations: 2 (0.00%)

moonwashed #533:
Nodes: 10 (0.00%
Ways: 0
Relations: 2 (0.00%)

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Source: http://odbl.poole.ch => Israel and http://odbl.de

Here is what will be left of Israel after 1. April 2012
if nobody else will accept the new license change.
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Nodes
98.3% => 98,7% (08.02.2012) => 98,9% (NEW! Date 22.02.2012)

Highways
96.9% => 97,6 (08.02.2012) => 97,8 (NEW! Date 22.02.2012)

Other Ways
97.9% => 98,2% (08.02.2012) => 98,6% (NEW! Date 22.02.2012)

Routes
100.0%

Other Rel.
98.8% => 99% (NEW! Date 29.02.2012)
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Source: http://odbl.poole.ch/

Total users agreed 799 => 807 => 810 (NEW! Date 07.03.2012)
Pre CT users agreed 367 => 375 => 378 (NEW! Date 07.03.2012)
Adopted users 1
Users disagreed 8
Users unknown 159 => 152 => 149 (NEW! Date 07.03.2012)

Here you can see what data may be lost if nobody else excepts the license:
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=34.83266&lat=32.42897&zoom=10&overlays=overview,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_created_cp,wtfe_line_created

And here you can see what will be left after the 1. April (only showing ODBL license agreed data):
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=13&lat=32.07761&lon=34.83008&layers=B000

As far as I understood we can avoid a deletion of data by recreating ways / nodes or relations of those users.
We should somehow think of a plan to avoid the delete of important places.

Beside that: Does anybody know how to contact user : TALBA ?

Mr_Israel · 2012-02-17T08:38:24.000Z

My biggest concern is regarding talba- as we will loose almost 3 - 5 % of the mapped Israeli area.
That is a huge part.

Actually you can see here what areas will be removed:
http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?talba=&zoom=10&lat=32.10475&lon=35.02679&layers=B0T&u=talba

Citys:

South of Netanya
Ramat Gan
Jerusalem Area
Ramla

It is almost impossible to remap his work.
He was just too productive.

So if you hear or see or know him, please ask him to visit this forum.

Mr_Israel · 2012-02-17T20:09:56.000Z

Avi Avraham (nodes created: 720 / highways created: 53 ) has accepted the new license

Can somebody please write a nice text in Hebrew / English that we can send via Email to the other people that haven’t accepted the terms yet?

yrtimiD · 2012-02-21T22:20:09.000Z

does anybody already sent messages to this users through osm messaging system?

yrtimiD · 2012-02-21T22:30:21.000Z

Here is the link to more detailed info on possible losses: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=34.81772&lat=32.07270&zoom=14&overlays=overview,wtfe_point_clean,wtfe_line_clean,wtfe_point_harmless,wtfe_line_harmless,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_created_cp,wtfe_line_created

Easy to see, we’ll must recreate Ramat Gan and Givataim from scratch… Huge work!

Also, talba uploaded many GPS traces, can we reuse them or old license also applies on them?

Is any body leave in Ramat Gan?

Mr_Israel · 2012-02-21T22:40:52.000Z

I have already send a couple of emails to users and 4 of them has agreed the new license.
would be great if you could publish a hebrew version to ask the users to agree the license.

I have still hope that we will reach talba.
I have send him several emails without response.

Tomorrow we will have new stats (created every week only) and see how many users are left.

yrtimiD · 2012-02-21T22:47:36.000Z

From his (talba) gps traces we can try to findout where he lived when mapped

Mr_Israel · 2012-02-21T22:49:41.000Z

We are all israelis… security is something we keep in mind all the time but of course we can give it a try.

yrtimiD · 2012-02-21T22:54:10.000Z

“Shualey Shimshon” street has quiet high gps coverage http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.079014&lon=34.822358&zoom=18&layers=M. May be anybody can check this area?

Mr_Israel · 2012-02-23T11:09:46.000Z

I have updated the stats of this top thread today.

I have started to migrate the ways of “one time editors”.
Meaning that I recreated those ways and deleted the way and nodes those users created before.
Of course I started at the bottom of the statistics page. At the next statistics next week I expect around 10 - 20 users less in the stats.
In several cases its easier to migrate the node than to write a email and ask for accepting the license.

I have written emails via OSM to more that 70 % of the users that haven’t decided yet.
Currently I’m blocked via OSM because I have send too many emails, LOL.
Of course I have started from the top to down.

[EDIT] I SEND A EMAIL VIA OSM TO ALL USERS THAT HAVEN’T DECIDED YET.

I know the full name of Talba and I’m trying to get in touch with him through several online ways .
Lets see if there is any progress in the next week.

If anybody is interested in trying to use the offline way (call the telephone company asking for the number / visit his expected home) please PM me.

yrtimiD · 2012-02-27T22:28:50.000Z

So, be prepared for ramat gan mapping party?

yrtimiD · 2012-02-29T12:35:26.000Z

I started to remap from traces big part of Nazrat Ilit to change license of all work done by genama.

What status of other users from the list?
Any changes? Personal details? Anything?

P.S. User Markus B marked as adopted - what is this mean?

Mr_Israel · 2012-03-01T09:18:15.000Z

In my personal opinion we should start with the users that have been declined the new license.
Therefor I have posted a list of actual decliners in the first thread and here what is left of their work:

Cetest
jkjk
ulfl
JohnSmith
amai
Stefan de Konink
moonwashed

We still have a chance that the others will agree the new license, right?

Is there a way to identify the nodes / way / relations of those users only?

P.S. User Markus B is somehow copied and not a problem anymore.
Please ask google for this user as I also don’t really understand what this means
I just know that he is not a license problem anymore.

yrtimiD · 2012-03-01T09:57:15.000Z

but, accordingly to http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Markus%20B his status is Undecided. Are you sure he isn’t a problem?

yrtimiD · 2012-03-01T09:58:51.000Z

I think it’s better to start checking all red areas shown at http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=34.81772&lat=32.07270&zoom=14&overlays=overview,wtfe_point_clean,wtfe_line_clean,wtfe_point_harmless,wtfe_line_harmless,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_created_cp,wtfe_line_created, and if one belongs to this users - start to remap.

Mr_Israel · 2012-03-01T10:24:27.000Z

yrtimiD:

but, accordingly to http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Markus%20B his status is Undecided. Are you sure he isn’t a problem?

You can find informations about the adoption here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quick_History_Service#User_Overrides_-_.22Adoptions.22

My experience of remapping was that I remapped a town in the north of Israel and after I did that the users that mapped it before has agreed the license, because of my emails!
Of course my work was not useless, as I found a lot of mistakes and could add a massive amount of streets to the area.

Instead of remapping big areas we should create a Hebrew template and use it to contact all undecided users again.
If I understand the stats correctly there where 8 users that accepted the license after my emails. But I send a email only in English.

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I’m personally searching at the moment for edits of the user cetest and fixing it!

Mr_Israel · 2012-03-04T14:46:46.000Z

yrtimiD:

I started to remap from traces big part of Nazrat Ilit to change license of all work done by genama.

I hope you haven’t actually started to remap as we have good news!

genama, shatun, Randbewohner and Hezi_Cohen accepted the license in the last days!!!

Please, Please create a Hebrew template to send all left users and tell them to accept the new license.
Emails to the users do help!

Mr_Israel · 2012-03-12T11:07:10.000Z

The time is running and I don’t really expect Talba to “appear” in the next 3 weeks.
So we should consider remapping his details…

So anybody that wants to help could start here and there I guess

Mr_Israel · 2012-03-12T15:32:08.000Z

I wrote yesterday another reminder email and today realizing:

gen2002 (nodes created: 20 / highways created: 10) has got just into the top10 users and is already out of the list as the user accepted the license yesterday!!!

yrtimiD · 2012-03-18T15:58:09.000Z

I hope you haven’t actually started to remap as we have good news!

Thanks for the great news!

Mr_Israel, can you publish here what You sent in english and I’ll do my best to adopt this to hebrew.