<html><head><style type="text/css">body {word-wrap: break-word; background-color:#ffffff;}</style></head><body><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px">If someone turns out to be a troll, repeatedly and deliberately posting false information, how would they be blocked? Would the Twitter scraper program need to be the step doing the blocking, since all changes to the OSM database would go in under the same user ID?<br><br><font color="#333333"><i><span style="font-size: 14px"><font face="sans-serif">Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless</font></span></i></font></div><br><br>-----Original message-----<br><blockquote style="; border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px"><b>From: </b>Martijn van Exel <m@rtijn.org><b><br>To: </b>Talk Openstreetmap <talk@openstreetmap.org><b><br>Sent: </b>Thu, May 26, 2011 17:51:07 GMT+00:00<b><br>Subject: </b>[OSM-talk] anonymous edits<br><br></div>Hi all,<br><br>Consider the following application scheme:<br>* a twitter user sends a geo-located tweet containing a specified<br>hashtag, say #addosm and key-value pairs like "amenity:pub;name:Red<br>Devil;smoking:yes"<br>* a twitter scraper picks up the tweet, archives it and posts a new<br>point using the twitter coordinate and the decoded k-v pairs, plus an<br>additional tag source:twitter[@twitteruser] or something like that.<br>This would be an easy way to add POIs on the go, and could be an<br>interface for mobile applications to post new POIs. This would not be<br>totally anonymous but it's close. What do you think, is this<br>acceptable? A similar level of anonymity is reached by <a href="WheelMap.org">WheelMap.org</a><br>that allows anonymous OSM edits through their web site via the OSM<br>account wheelmap_visitor[2].<br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Anonymous_edits">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Anonymous_edits</a><br>[2] <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wheelmap_visitor">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wheelmap_visitor</a><br>-- <br>Martijn van Exel<br>http://about.me/mvexel<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br>talk@openstreetmap.org<br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br></blockquote></body></html>