[OSM-talk] "Hack the Map" An Idea for Online Mapping Events.

[Richard Weait]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> On 6/15/2011 4:53 AM, Parveen Arora wrote:
>>
>> Please give your valuable suggestions to make it better, also add the
>> points that you wants to take care about during this kind of online
>> event event.
>
>  Just a note for the local venue - in many recent cases, the student edit
> activities will result in an automatic block on that IP address. The
> automatic block is necessary to block those downloading large areas via the
> API.
>
>   It would be handy to be able to change the external IP address to recover
> from that.

... And to emphasize the importance of zooming in to the smallest
practical area before editing to try to avoid it in the first place.