[OSM-dev] Registering on osm.org with a social account

[Jóhannes Birgir Jensson]

To me this seems like a good step forwards.

The pre-filled display name could be the short name (if the API provides 
it) of the user, like in Facebook URLs (which you can pick) but 
highlight that they can change the name (and might have to).

If the API provides an approximate location (Littletown, Somecounty, 
Thatcountry) then we could even go a step further and use Nominatim for 
a lookup and set that up as their Home Location by default.

Þann 12.11.2015 13:58, Ilya Zverev reit:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We at maps.me (well, me alone for now) are looking into simplifying
> OSM sign up process on mobile devices. As you know, the current
> process, which involves opening a browser, then opening a mail app,
> then opening a browser again, then returning to an app and entering
> credentials once again, is quite disruptive. But since we already
> support linking accounts to social login services (like Facebook and
> MS Live), there are few things that could simplify registering users
> on mobile. I wrote some thoughts on hackpad:
> 
> https://hackpad.com/Facebook-Registation-for-OSM.org-4MI6M5EeeRh
> 
> My point is to create a set of API methods that allow for user
> registration without at any point leaving the app, but not removing
> any steps from the registration process (except e-mail verification,
> which is done by a third party). This would greatly increase number of
> OSM editors, not only because web registration will take less clicks,
> but from a great number of mobile users, who don't want to bother with
> a website.
> 
> I can probably learn RoR and make these changes myself, but for now
> I'd like to learn if the community is good with this proposal.
> 
> IZ
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