[OSM-talk] Contacting OSM editors

[Simon Huggins]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:30:01AM -0700, Mikel Maron wrote:
> > I was asking because I didn't understand whether you were (a)  
> > proposing to release the numerical user ids where people haven't  
> > agreed to give out their username, or whehter you wanted to (b)  
> > create an interface where you could somehow say "please send this to  
> > the dude who changed way #1234 yesterday around 16:50", or whether  
> > you had a third thing in mind.
> I was thinking (a). Unless I'm remembering wrong, these ids were being
> sent out through the API, and we're visible in JOSM.

> Revealing the numeric id of an editor doesn't seem like a privacy
> violation to me..

No, but revealing the numeric ID doesn't actually help you contact that
editor at all either.

How would you use the numeric ID once you had it?

Simon

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