[OSM-talk] Code of conduct for automated (mass-) edits

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Hugh Barnes <list.osm at hughbris.com> wrote:
>> No, because the user agent is not recorded as part of the edits. Nor is
>> it planned to record it as a property of the changeset in API 0.6.
>
> Right, that's surprising, it's a pretty handy thing. I was about to ask how
> you know the editor in the history, but the penny's dropped that you actually
> use a tag to record it. I guess that's a legacy of editors existing outside
> of the API.

Well, when I was at the hackathon it was certainly intended to include
the user agent in the changeset. As a replacement for the created_by
tag. JOSM in API 0.6 will include it's version number in the changeset
for example.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/