[OSM-talk] Potlatch vs Twitter

[Richard Fairhurst]

Hi all,

Twitter-using OSMers can now (as of Potlatch 1.2e) tweet their edits.

If you punch your Twitter ID and password into Potlatch's options 
screen[1], you'll have the option for your comments to be posted to your 
Twitter account whenever you save a changeset.

The tweet includes an OSM shortlink, so others can see your location; 
and the #osmedit tag, because I didn't think those who look at #osm 
would appreciate being overwhelmed by a bunch of edits.

Knock yourselves out. :)

cheers
Richard


[1] Privacy stuff: Your ID and password are remembered on your local 
machine as a cookie (well, Flash's Local Storage), and not saved on 
osm.org. Twitter currently prevent Flash clients from connecting 
directly, though have said they're going to relax this. Until then, the 
posting needs to go via a proxy script on dev.openstreetmap.org. TomH 
has looked at this and is happy, I trust, that it's not doing anything 
evil like harvesting passwords.