On 9/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bruce Cowan</b> <<a href="mailto:bruce.cowan@dsl.pipex.com">bruce.cowan@dsl.pipex.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 09:05 +0100, Paul Dixon wrote:<br>> >> In case anyone hasn't seen it:<br>> >><br>> >> <a href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Move_on_google_maps_a_web_2_0_map_service_is_here">
http://digg.com/tech_news/Move_on_google_maps_a_web_2_0_map_service_is_here</a><br>> >><br>> ><br>> > IMO it highlights how much we need a new front page that emphasises OSM being<br>> > more than just a 'google maps killer'.
<br>> That headline is just awful, and you can see from the comments many have<br>> tried to click expecting some open source Google map killer and saw,<br>> well, the OpenStreetMap front page. I buried some of the more
<br>> inflammatory comments and gave a boost to the more insightful ones :)<br>I also tried to do this as well.<br><br>It's a disaster! Mostly these people are American, so you can't expect<br>them to know the dangers of crown copyright.
<br><br>One thing I did notice was vandalism. Is there any mechanism of<br>reverting changes done by a malicious person?</blockquote><div><br>Where? And how did you notice it?<br><br>I stumbled across a couple of edits in the Weybridge area that were clearly the result of someone trying to make the applet do something. I think we are getting close to the point where we really need to be able to monitor edits.
<br><br>Something simple like a query that would list any changes by someone else to nodes/segments/ways that I originally created or have touched would be a start. This would be a crude equivalent to the "watch this page" function on a wiki. Alternatively a "watch this tile" function would be another way of doing it.
<br><br>If someone edits something in the Weybridge area then I really really want to know about it. Either someone is helping which is good or someone is vandalising which is bad and I need to repair the damage. <br><br>
Etienne<br><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br>Bruce Cowan <<a href="mailto:bruce.cowan@dsl.pipex.com">bruce.cowan@dsl.pipex.com
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