[OSM-newbies] Anonymity

[Mark Williams]

Robert Hart wrote:
> On 11/09/2007, Mark Williams <mark.666 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Given firstly that I'm not normally Mr Anonymous User, anyone know why
>> josm should suddenly be making me out to be?
>>
>>     
>
> Have you tried closing josm and doing a fresh download of the data
> from the OSM server?
>
> There are two possibilities I can think of:
>
> 1) JOSM doesn't know that the data belongs to you. This happens when
> the data has been created and uploaded by JOSM. The author information
> is added by the server so you only get it marked as yours when you
> next download it.
>
> 2) Somebody else has edited it in the mean time. You could look at the
> history of a few of your ways to see if that has happened.
>
> Rob
>
>   
Hmm yes - you're quite right, it does appear.

Don't know why this feels different to usual, but it does!

Thank you.

Mark