[OSM-talk] Anonymous login, yet again- was privacy policy

Barnett, Phillip Phillip.Barnett at itn.co.uk
Fri Jul 28 09:24:08 BST 2006


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-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Nick Whitelegg
Sent: 28 July 2006 09:12
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous login, yet again- was privacy policy


>
> I am sympathetic to allowing anonymous adding of key/values - but as 
> many people on the list believe that copying names of an OS map is 
> copyright infringement (I don't!) then consider the possibilty that 
> some enterprising person at the OS might like to add a load of streets

> plus deliberate "easter egg" misspellings to OSM......
>

While someone with some sort of grudge against OSM might do that (hence
the need for protection) I very much doubt that a commercial mapping
provider would perform such an unprofessional and corrupt action.

Nick

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