Perhaps it is not too late for the application of some common sense.

I am unhappy with the new CTs, and with the proposed licence change, and with the manner in which they have been introduced. Furthermore, I am unwilling to commit myself to a legal document under coercion when I do not fully understand it, and I have therefore declined the CTs.

It seems that the consequence of this is that all my contributions to the map will be deleted at some point in the near future. I have enjoyed the process of tramping around the streets and countryside, logging and photographing, and so the hundreds of hours spent on it are not wasted, but it is going to be a serious annoyance to the other contributors and it is not fair on people who are actually trying to improve the state of the map.

It is ironic that I am in this position largely because of my conscientious attribution of all sources including a small amount of OS OpenData. Perhaps it would have been better to copy the whole lot from Google and keep quiet about it.

I do not care if my contributions will no longer be given attribution, and I do not care what use other people make of "my" data. I am quite happy to abandon any and all of my rights to it and for OSM to do with it what they will, but it seems that that is not enough and the only options are either for me to sign a legal agreement, or else all of it has to be deleted.

The bit that really hurts is the loss of the data in Marrakech which is not accurately mappable from an armchair, and involves determined walking down little alleys, brushing aside all the warnings of "it's closed, it's closed" and the repeated offers to buy the GPS set!

Is anyone listening?