[OSM-talk] Re: privacy policy

[Martyn Welch]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 17:45, Andy Robinson wrote:
> Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> >Sent: 27 July 2006 17:17
> >To: Erik Johansson; Martyn Welch
> >Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> >Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Re: privacy policy
> >
> >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.
>
> No for these users I don't think it's an issue to login. I think what
> others are interested in is making the process for less dedicated users
> much simpler and the need to login is a barrier to fully opening up and
> achieving simplicity for users. In the future users may not be focused upon
> map creation but on what extra things can be done using the map data as a
> basis.
>

Who would not need write access to the underlying data as I don't need CVS 
commit access to the ubuntu's repository to write and use test applications. 
Let alone anonymous write access.

Martyn

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