[talk-au] NearMap support for OSM editing

[James Andrewartha]

On 9 June 2010 09:22, Ben Last <ben.last at nearmap.com> wrote:
> On 9 June 2010 09:13, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I suspect this approach will prove controversial. Is there really no
>> way you can integrate user registrations?
>
> There's no convenient way.  We could bounce a user off to the OSM site to
> register, but this is complex because they then need to confirm an email,
> and after the signup there (appears to be) no convenient way to bring them
> back to our site. We'd then have to ask them to enter their OSM username and
> password since we can't easily tell whether they are registered/logged in
> with OSM (the OSM login cookies are for the openstreetmap.org domain).  In
> short, the OSM site doesn't appear to have been designed with the intention
> of supporting login integration with external services.
> There are ways around many of the issues, but we'd end up doing a fair
> amount of work to integrate closely with an external site that may then
> change the way it works, breaking the flow for our users.

OSM does support OAuth: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OAuth which
helps with bringing people back to the site and doesn't require you to
know their username and password. It is a standard, although doesn't
help with the initial registration.

James