[OSM-legal-talk] Anonymous nodes edited supporting way

[Richard Fairhurst]

Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote:
> Some aspect of the licence change is questionning me.
> 
> Old anonymous edition (when OSM do not require registering) 
> are ambigious to me : some say that those edits will be deleted.

Bit of confusion here.

OSM has always required registration. It's just that, originally, you had
the choice for your edits to be "anonymous": i.e. when they were shown (via
the API or data browser or whatever), they wouldn't be attributed with your
username or ID.

But the user ID was still recorded in the database. So we know who these
people are, and we know whether they've accepted the CTs. Many have.

In order to preserve anonymity while still allowing them to be taken through
into the new database, LWG has provided a list of the changesets edited by
anonymous-but-accepting-CTs mappers. This is available on planet.osm.org and
will be refreshed periodically. I believe both Frederik and Simon are using
it for their visualisation/tally services.

cheers
Richard



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