[OSM-dev] MapRoulette requests OSM permissions

[Serge Wroclawski]

Paul,

MapRoulette is unconcerned about other instances, just as osm.org is
unconcerned with other openstreetmap-website instances.

- Serge

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
>> From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emacsen at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 1:10 PM
>> To: OpenStreetMap Development
>> Subject: [OSM-dev] MapRoulette requests OSM permissions
>>
>> Initially, we thought we would probably use osm.org's internal system
>> of storing user data in key/value pairs to store information about the
>> user from MapRoulette, for example, choosing which challenge they
>> wanted to have by default, but ultimately we moved away from this
>> choice because making the external calls to osm.org was more expensive
>> than making local db lookups.
>
> I'd suggest only doing this for preferences across multiple MapRoulette
> instances (MapRoulette preferences, rather than MapRoulette.org preferences)
>