[OSM-dev] Use of OSM API for non-editing third party applications

[Nick Whitelegg]

Hi,


I'm just asking something which was raised as an issue in my Gitlab repository for OpenTrailView (www.opentrailview.org<http://www.opentrailview.org>; fully FOSS 360 panorama site which uses OSM ways to connect panoramas together).


The person who raised the issue requested that OSM logins be used on OpenTrailVIew rather than (as currently) its own login system. I suspect the reason is security-related as it allows users to use an existing trusted authentication system.


As OpenTrailView does not include provision for editing OSM data, I suspect the answer is no - but is it acceptable for third-party OSM-related sites which do not edit the data to 'piggyback' on OSM's authentication system like this?


Thanks,

Nick

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