[OSM-talk] Re: privacy policy

[Barnett, Phillip]

1) Anybody who's committed enough to collect GPS tracks, extract them
from his/her GPS device, upload them to OSM server, download an area and
edit it, and then upload the changes, surely isn't going to find logging
in a huge inconvenience. 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Erik Johansson
Sent: 27 July 2006 16:17
To: Martyn Welch
Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Re: privacy policy

On 7/27/06, Martyn Welch <martyn at welchs.me.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 27 July 2006 13:11, Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> > Other than wikipedia, OSM does not allow the edit without a login 
> > (anonymous).
> >
> > I like to have the possibility to edit data without to have to 
> > create an account first. I don't care whether the IP address is used

> > in this case (as wikipedia does) or not.
>
> I *really* don't think that this is a good idea and am supprised that 
> it works so well for wikipedia.

Well this is the point is it does work for Wikipedia, and your problems
can be used against OSM even with the current model with email accounts.
If they were used in that way, FUD would be it's name.


> Can you provide more reasons as to why anonymous write access would be
good?

1. easy for user
2. easy for dev (e.g. 3rd party web interfaces) 3. same level of
security, with less hassel.

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