[OSM-dev] created_by considered harmfull

[Rob Aerts]

love the idea of mobile mapping (i'm considering building this into my
windows mobile project)
although i do not have datalimits on my wireless connection (others will
have)
it will be a good thing to reduce the data size to transfer (faster)

offtopic: an api or other server that could store other related data on the
move like photo's and voice annotations would rule (can build my own server
for this, but a public osm server would be better)

2007/8/9, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk>:
>
> On 09/08/07, bvh <bvh-osm at irule.be> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:37:03AM +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote:
> > > Apart from the user confusion I can't actually see any "harm".
> > >
> > > Bandwidth is a non-issue, and I'm not aware of any current database
> > > space problems.
> >
> > O the database can handle a few created_by tags fine. It is the
> > user side! For example I a have a N95 which is the ideal mapping
> > tool and I am working on a quick fix editor for it. Unfortunatly
> > I pay per transferred megabyte so I am very interested in bringing
> > down overhead.
>
> Ooo... on the move mapping. Sounds cool.
> You might want to consider some kind proxy though... XML isn't going
> to be bandwidth friendly when you're measuring in per MB rates, even
> when compressed.
>
> >
> > > The purpose it serves was to highlight which editor was uploading
> > > things, if for instance there was an editor bug. But as JOSM in
> > > particular doesn't bother to include the version number, this is
> > > probably less useful than it could be. Otherwise the tag lets us make
> > > random statistics about what editor people are using.
> >
> > As you say for debugging purposes the created_by tag is useless.
> > I also feel that there are more interesting statistics to make
> > regarding OSM...
>
> Stats are mostly of interest to the person creating them ;-)
>
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