[OSM-talk] Disallow Anonymous Edits NOW
Dirk-Lüder Kreie
osm-list at deelkar.net
Mon Oct 15 01:23:44 BST 2007
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Steve Coast schrieb:
>
> No, but it provides the illusion that people won't break data. I can
> still go in and delete all of Oxford, right? And in the mean time, a
> basic freedom has been lost.
>
> I know I sound a bit Stallman, but I think it's a shame.
Nobody here wants anyone to be personally identifiable, just to exchange
a pseudonym for anonymity.
You still can rotate accounts every X edits if you wish to keep one set
of data discrete from another set, to keep your privacy. (record the
trip to your secret lover from another pseudonym than the shopping trip
with your wife.)
Of course I'd like to see transactional edits, along with "commit
message" if you so will, and rollback and whatnot, but I can't code it.
Sometimes being able to simply contact someone would be sufficient,
hence the desire to disallow anonymous edits.
It's insanely frustrating having to clean up constant mess-ups in areas
you thought you were done with.
So either you make every user contactable through the API (send a
message to all the people that edited node/way/relation with ID XYZ)
or by User number (that's basically a pseudonym) or a self-chosen
pseudonym (what I think most people in this thread would like to do).
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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E
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