On 9/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew MacKinnon</b> <<a href="mailto:andrewpmk@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">andrewpmk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
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On 9/2/07, 80n <80n80n at <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>>Here are some of my thoughts on why showing the user name might actually be
<br>>a good thing:<br><br>...<br><br>I think that it makes sense to keep the username on the Osmarender
<br>layer, but with the copyright symbol removed, since the Osmarender<br>layer is still (even with Osmarender 5) considered a rough draft layer.</blockquote><div><br>I don't consider it to be a rough draft layer. However, thank you for sharing your opinion.
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It provides a convenient way to see which user created a particular<br>way, which might be useful for editors. However, this information is of<br>no use for the end user of OpenStreetMap data, so it should be omitted<br>
on final renderings of the data (like Mapnik and printed maps).
<br>Consider Wikipedia - readers of Wikipedia who are not involved in<br>editing do not care which users contributed to an article, so this<br>information is only listed on the history page.</blockquote><div><br>The point I just made was that it is a trust mechanism. Maps are not like Wikipedia articles in this respect. You don't use Wikipedia articles to navigate down long country lanes in the dark in the expectation that there will be a bridge at the end. People need tools and mechanisms that help them to trust the maps we make.
<br><br>If I can see that the map of a small town in the middle of North Dakota was created by someone who actually lived there then I'm more inclined to trust it than if I see that it came from some faceless Government TIGER database.
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