[OSM-talk] anonymous edits

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Martijn van Exel wrote:
> That is exactly why I started this thread - to see how (un)acceptable
> it is to do (semi) anonymous edits. 

An important reason against anonymous edits is accountability. We want 
to be able to contact someone and ask them: Why did you add that? What 
did you mean by it? Etc.

In order not to burden the mapper, your twitter bot would somehow have 
to establish bidirectional communiactions between mappers and 
twitter-ers. If you think you cannot expect the twitter-er to set up an 
OSM account, then in the same vein you cannot expect the mapper to set 
up a twitter account. You must make sure that a message sent by a mapper 
to your twitter bot actually reaches the twitter-er who is the source of 
the data. This is probably not easy.

> I was surprised to see the
> wheelmap construct but I'm sure that was discussed here before it was
> implemented. Was it?

Don't geht the "wheelmap visitor" thing wrong; the *only* thing that 
this visitor can do is to set one specific tag to one of three specific 
values on an already-existing object of a certain type. So, no free-form 
tagging, no creation of new objects - almost zero risk of vandalism or 
copyright violation. But even there we have already had problems where 
an unknown "wheelmap visitor" changed something that others found worthy 
of discussion.

On the whole, I don't think this twitter thing can fly. We don't want 
your data (only), we want your soul, and if you cannot be bothered to 
set up an account (which you will need anyway as soon as you want to 
make edits rather than just dumping POIs onto us) then maybe OSM is not 
for you.

A twitter-to-openstreetbugs interface, that could work.

Bye
Frederik

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