[OSM-talk] Permission for my work

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:

> Then can we get the OSM admins to split your edits into the new user
> and old user based on their location? It would be relatively easy to
> make a bounding box, and say "All jamesmikedupont edits outside get
> renamed to $NEWUSER".

I don't think that there is an API call for change ownership of these
changesets, or similar.  As a hack, an admin might be able to do that
directly in the DB, but that may have side effects.

Would you, perhaps with others, like to take look at the implications
on history, full history, users stats, downstream tools, or whatever
else comes to mind?

There are many interesting, productive tasks that we can tackle in
OSM.  More devs are always welcome.  I'll have an article on
blog.osmfoundation.org that relates to this shortly.

Best regards,
Richard