[OSM-dev] Using OAuth

Sven Anders sven at anders-hamburg.de
Mon Aug 31 18:45:46 BST 2009


Am Monday 31 August 2009 16:46:38 schrieben Sie:
> On 30/08/09 18:36, Sven Anders wrote:
> > Perhabs someone could add a username and mailaddress api call?
>
> We are not going to be giving out email addresses to OAuth API users
> anymore than we do to anybody else.

I think there is no problem in privacy if the user is asked if OSM is allowed 
to transfer his mailaddress. But no problem, I will ask the user to typein 
his password again.

> There is already a user details call that returns an XML document with
> user information so anything new should be added to that rather than
> creating extra API calls.

This api call was not documented, I added it to osm-wiki today. ;-)


> > Is there a good reason why one user should have more than one access
> > token for one application?
>
> Matt is the expert on OAuth so I'll leave him to answer this.

Matt has already answered this question:
See: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-August/016725.html

He wrote:
>not really.



Best Regads
Sven




More information about the dev mailing list