Accessing third-party repositories

[Simon Poole]

ELI has a privacy url field, though I believe Vespucci is currently the
only editor that a) points this out, and b) makes the link accessible to
end users.

Simon

Am 14.02.2020 um 18:46 schrieb Greg Troxel:
> Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:
>
>> I can understand that if I load Ilya's geochat plugin it will phone home
>> to Ilya's server, or if I enable certain imagery layers they will load
>> data from the imagery server. Also it is clear that JOSM will access the
>> OSM and JOSM servers. But I think that we should not add random third
>> party web sites that are under control of neither OSMF nor the JOSM team
>> to the mix without explaining this to the user and asking for their consent.
> Agreed that this is the right expectations.
>
> There's an interesting issue with third-party imagery and map layers,
> which is how users know their privacy policies, such as what records
> they keep of which IP addresses looked at which areas, and if this is
> diclosed, etc.  It would be good to have a standardized access point for
> these (that one can discover from a tile URL), and to have these links
> assocatied with the tile layer definition.
>
> The next  step would be some standard semantics or simply human
> evaluation of whether the tile provider commits to nondisclosure,
> non-use and/or non-retention.
>

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