[OSM-talk] Improving community within the OSM site

[SteveC]

* @ 24/05/06 06:06:57 PM openstreetmap at jammeh.co.uk wrote:
> Etienne wrote:
> > On 5/23/06, Erik Johansson <erjohan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 5/23/06, Etienne <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >> It would be very nice to be able to see who is logged in and mapping
> >> at the moment, and some kind of chat/webforum. I'm dying to know who
> >> made those segments 4 km from my house, but I can't.
> >
> > It would be very useful to have some information about who has created
> > a segment and also the edit history for that segment.  This is already
> > in the database but is not exposed through any API.
> >
> > To avoid exposing a real identity (well actually a real email address)
> > the alias should be sent in place of the email address.  This is
> > already defined for the tracks upload, so the only problem seems to be
> > the need for a programmer to write an API get the history, tools can
> > then be written to use/display this information.
> 
> I was thinking about this recently, and one suggestion I have (though 
> I'm afraid I don't have the knowledge to implement it without learning 
> java a bit more) is that perhaps JOSM can allow default tags to be created.
> For instance, I could set "Created by" to be "jammeh" (if duplicate 
> created tags are allowed?) have a "Created on" set to the timestamp of 
> the upload. To extend this perhaps a "modified by" and a "modified on" 
> to show the (last only?) edit that was performed.
> It strikes me also that the last edit info might be useful in 
> conjunction with some auditing options to help remove the almost 
> inevitable defacement/spam etc when it arrives.

All these things are recorded by the server, they just ned to be exposed
more by the API.

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/