[OSM-talk] Edit OSM Attributes

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:15:26PM +0000, SteveC wrote:
> This is very cool but it subverts the copyright attribution mechanism
> within openstreetmap and so if a single person uploads copyrighted data
> through it and someone notices and sends us a takedown notice then every
> edit would have to be removed.

Yes. And it's tied to a specific account with no other data, so if it
comes down to that, you can revert all the changes. We've gone through
this before.

> 
> Could you please shut it down or implement user login as a priority?

I've asked for the tools neccesary to do so, and haven't been given them
in the past 4 months. I'm still waiting for a dev account, and
documentation on how to access OSM user credentials once I can put a
page on the OSM server.  

Alternatively, I can ask for OSM usernames and passwords. Let me tell
you how excited it makes me to collect login information on an off-site
service. (Not at all.)

> Unfortunately we do need to display clear due diligence on this.

The user you'll want to block edits from is
"crschmidt+freemap at crschmidt.net", if you feel you need to go that
route.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta