[OSM-dev] Sending messages to users

[Jochen Topf]

On Mo, Mai 05, 2014 at 09:52:43 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> MapRoulette has made a choice to try to collect as little data from
> our users as possible. We don't require a separate login other than
> from osm.org, we don't collect email addresses or anything else.

Unfortunately when I wanted to try MapRoulette and had to do the OAuth
thing on osm.org it asked for:
* read your user preferences.
* modify your user preferences.

I am not sure what "user preferences" entails, but for me that sounds like
"allow to change password" and "allow to set home location" etc. All things
MapRoulette doesn't need to change.

You might not use all these rights, but you are asking for it. Might be because
there is no way to ask for less rights? Or maybe it is bad wording on OSMs
part? But I don't give out blank cheques to everybody, so for me MapRoulette is
unusable for that reason.

Sorry, I highjacked your thread here, but maybe we need to think more
fundamentally about what rights a random application would need and should
get or not get.

Jochen
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