Bravo, sir: that does seem a, or even the, correct time, place and manner (to own / direct such a major sluice gate of data). If we ever find ourselves in that future, that is. So, thank you for a revealing place to introduce what in a radio broadcast or national uplink feed, might be the 15-second (10-second, one hour…) delay.
There truly are times, places and manners to do this (bulk processing, including or only delay, of live, big data). Does OSM have the computational, automation, human “sift through things” intelligence resources (to discern GDPR-ness) to do this now? It seems not, as having / providing sophisticatedly-processed planet diffs is described as “one shiny day, far in the future,” not now.
Maybe there is something I don’t understand, but that sounds like starting with a false premise and basing something upon it, so I’m confused. I’m impressed with learning that “this would be the way to do it, with a slight delay to planet diffs…” is the sort of sluice gate that it is. I like learning new things. API and Rendering tactics, neat-o. I’m sure there’s more and that’s awesome.
Pigs likely don’t fly (it does seem like deep computation or human evaluation on a lot of incoming data) so now that we know a good “choke point” how do we generate these magical diffs? How do we discover bad actors and vandalism? These are highly related and a lot of great work by genuine heroes in our project who cleverly fit certain pieces of it together and the whole effort of “Shields up!” makes real differences. I once again salute those who defend our data with serious, effective ongoing efforts.
It is worth it to do so. I also glean that it is a fair bit of effort on our part. Keep it up, everyone and thank you. We all play a part in this. Good discussion about this is healthy. The multi-pronged, plastic, flexible, nimble, smart, clever, stay ahead of bad actors approach is working. And while there might be no rest for the wicked (bad actors, vandals…) there is no rest for the vigilant. I love that so many of us care so deeply about our project.
