<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Why not use OAuth to enter the data straight back into OSM?<div><br></div><div>Shaun</div><div><br><div><div>On 30 Mar 2010, at 05:05, Cédric MOULLET wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear OSM community,<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><p style="max-width: 65em; "><a name="EN:_www.openaddresses.org_BETA_launched">After www.openaddresses.ch and www.openaddresses.at, </a><a href="http://www.openaddresses.org/" rel="nofollow">www.openaddresses.org</a> has been launched to collect worldwide localized addresses. This initiative of several people, universities and companies of central Europe aims to provide a web portail for the management of free and open geolocated addresses. </p><p style="max-width: 65em; ">One goal of <a href="http://www.openaddresses.org/">www.openaddresses.org</a> is to collaborate nicely with <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">www.openstreetmap.org</a> by exchanging data and providing additional services (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/openaddresses/wiki/RESTService">http://code.google.com/p/openaddresses/wiki/RESTService</a>). However, since localized addresses are very specific, we consider that it is appropriate to have a dedicated platform only for addresses. From the original projects, the data collected base on Google map has simply be removed in order to avoid any license issues.</p><p style="max-width: 65em; ">Don't hesitate to add your own address, the address of your friends and of the friends of your friends ;-) If you'd like to be part of this effort, you can also provide address listing, orthophoto or whatever data that can be useful. We are also looking for persons willing to participate to the development, the translation, the system administration, the testing, the communication and so on ...</p><p style="max-width: 65em; ">You'll find more information in the following documents:</p><ul style="max-width: 65em; padding-left: 40px; "><li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/openaddresses/wiki/FAQ" rel="nofollow">Frequently asked questions</a></li>
<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/openaddresses/wiki/UserGuideEn" rel="nofollow">User guide</a></li><li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/openaddresses/" rel="nofollow">Wiki</a></li><li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/OpenAddresses" rel="nofollow">Discussion group</a></li>
</ul><p style="max-width: 65em; ">Thanks for your interest.</p><p style="max-width: 65em; ">For OpenAddresses, Cédric Moullet</p></span>
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