[OSM-talk] Anonymous editing

AJH list at sylva.icuklive.co.uk
Fri Jan 23 08:22:48 GMT 2009


On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:11:57 +0000, Andy Allan wrote:

>I'd like to promote the term "untraceable editing" or something
>similar. What we're left with is still anonymous, just that we
>(non-server-admin) people can differentiate between two anonymous
>accounts. We'll still have no idea who they are.

The big benefits from OSM are likely to be in the less developed
world, where regimes aren't going to welcome the maps and where much
input is needed. Why not have a measure of "completeness" of the map
and only "moderate" changes after that level is reached?

AJH





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