<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Disputes">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Disputes</a></span><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: SteveC <steve@asklater.com><br>To: Mikel Maron <mikel_maron@yahoo.com><br>Cc: dev@openstreetmap.org<br>Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2008 7:28:14 PM<br>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] disputed areas<br><br>
So...
who
gets
to
decide
what
the
'right'
name
is
(in
the
disputed <br>region
where
people
kill
each
other
over
this)
then?<br><br>On
9
Feb
2008,
at
11:24,
Mikel
Maron
wrote:<br><br>>
You
may
remember
OSM's
first
edit
war
in
Cyprus,
last
November
..
<a href="http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=244" target="_blank">http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=244</a><br>><br>>
It's
still
going
on
and
we
need
a
technical
solution,
now.
Dialogue <br>>
has
not
been
effective
and
banning
users
is
not
effective.<br>><br>>
The
solution
in
mind
is
something
analogous
to
protected
pages
in <br>>
Wikipedia.
Edits
would
be
checked
against
a
list
of
"protected" <br>>
bbox's.<br>>
In
those
area,
users
without
permission
to
edit
would
be
denied, <br>>
and
given
warning
that
they
should
apply
for
access.<br>>
There
would
be
an
admin
panel
for
selected
moderators
to
approve/ <br>>
revoke
access
for
users.<br>><br>>
That's
(very
sketchily)
the
full
package,
and
it
could
take
some <br>>
time
to
implement.
Right
now,
there's
an
immediate
need
to
protect <br>>
Cyprus.<br>>
A
quick
fix
could
just
apply
protection
for
Cyprus,
and
access <br>>
granted
in
some
manual
fashion.<br>><br>>
A
developer
is
needed
now
to
implement
the
quick
solution,
and
later <br>>
the
full
solution.
Please
speak
up
if
you
can
help.<br>><br>>
Cheers<br>>
Mikel<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>>
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