[OSM-talk] author of segments and nodes incorrect

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Francisco R. Santos wrote:
>     Yes, I've just noticed this happening to me. I've just created several
>     objects in the latest JOSM and they are credited to (anonymous user)
>     despite my obviously using my login name to upload changes. I've just
>     double-checked, and yes, my edits are all set as Public.

This is true, but I don't have a good idea how to fix it.

JOSM does not know your "screen name", it only knows your login name 
(usually your email address). They can be different (in my case the 
"screen name" is "woodpeck", and the login name used with JOSM is my 
email address).

When things are downloaded from the server, the user name is specified 
as the login name.

So JOSM has no way of knowing what name to put when you create or change 
something. (JOSM doesn't upload a name to the API either - the API 
derives the screen name from the login name and stores the former.)

Possible solutions:

* Have a JOSM preferences option "OSM screen name", and credit newly 
created objects to this.

* Credit newly created objects with a pseudo-user "current session" or 
so. (However this would also be in a saved file!)

* ... ?

Bye
Frederik

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