[talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

[Richard Weait]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:51 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was sent a link to this thread on the JOSM dev mailing list:
>
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2011-January/005185.html
>
> The jist is some people are pushing to put URL filtering into JOSM,
> currently the discussion is focused on Google images/tiles however it
> wouldn't take much of a leap for things to also block Nearmap URLs
> since those pushing for this change seem to want to make JOSM
> difficult to use for anything but OSM allowed sources.
>
> Thankfully the main author of the software seems to want a more
> general editor, not just one that works with OSM specific APIs etc.

You aren't addressing the core question.  "Given that the new imagery
plugin has made it much simpler to accidentally infringe, is a URL
blacklist a suitable way to raise that barrier closer to where it was
a few weeks ago?"

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