[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] WIP: Allow users to hide the heatmap (PR #6606)

[Minh Nguyễn]

1ec5 left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6606)

> There was a question of whether this was necessary, privacy implications, LWG discussion, etc. As communicated to me, this is the decision:
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> * OSM have a legitimate interest to show the heatmap, so it's ok that users get it by default.
> * The heatmap is not strictly necessary in order to use OSM, so users should have the ability to hide it.

Correct, this is an accurate description of what the LWG decided. I’ve updated https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/5804#issuecomment-3638311030 with more details.

> The option appears as a checkbox under the heatmap. At the moment, any preferences that affect the profile can be reached from the profile page, so filing this under Preferences didn't feel right.

I’d agree with @gravitystorm that the actual preference should be under /profile somewhere. We don’t have a separate page for previewing your own profile as it appears to other users, so a  For consistency, I think the user would expect to see a button that takes them to the specific tab of the Edit Profile page. Unfortunately, this means yet another tab so we have something to link to.

(I wonder if we need to revisit the decision in #6084 to tie each of these tabs to a path rather than a named anchor and URL hash. Eventually we’ll have enough preferences that the tab bar will get pretty unwieldy. Or maybe we need to have a dedicated page for previewing the profile so we can make the default view more interactive…)

> For admins - why do they need to see it? Should this be visible to moderators too? I would think moderators are more focussed on mapping behaviour than admins, but I don't know if either group use the heatmap as part of their tasks.

I vaguely recall comments that the heatmap would be useful to DWG members, but I can’t find them anymore, or maybe it was just speculation. In any case, if the administrators don’t see a need to always see the heatmap, then let’s hide it for them too. We can always revisit if the need arises.

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