[josm-dev] JOSM Server

[Ian Dees]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ian Dees wrote:
>
>  For the default maps sources externals will not be allowed. That would
>>> disable the security checks.
>>>
>>>  What security checks are you talking about?
>>
>
> When you save the page, you can't simply save everthing. E.G. the XML
> structure is validated as well as certain options are forbidden to change
> for non-admins.


Those sorts of security checks could be enforced both by the script that
converts from the JSON files to the JOSM XML format and by the admins
merging pull requests from users.

I'm not trying to force a change on JOSM, but I think it would benefit the
OSM community as a whole to consolidate work on this sort of information
that's used by the editor.