[OSM-talk] anonymous edits

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Fri May 27 07:27:07 BST 2011


Hi,

On 05/27/2011 08:06 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> The one thing I do see as a real issue

I don't think that the requirement of being able to contact someone 
(without first setting up a twitter account) is "not real"!

> is the legal one. All twitter
> POI contributions would be added through one account - at least
> initially, see below. This account has to be made by a real person and
> that person is legally bound to the license and CT. Will this person
> or legal entity need permission from the people actually using the
> twitter scheme to be in conformance with the license / CT? How does
> Wheelmap.org handle this, if at all?

In contrast to your proposed twitter scheme, wheelmap anonymous edits 
can only be made through their site where I'm sure they will have some 
sort of statement that says "by submitting your data you agree..."; this 
is more difficult since you cannot do a "by using the so-and-so hashtag 
you agree...".

> I can see that happening. After a few additions, the scraper
> application may send a tweet encouraging the user to create an
> account.

That sounds like a plan. Personally I'd never bother to try adding POIs 
through twitter but there might be people who do.

>> 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

[...]

> Fair enough, that is fairly well constrained. On the other hand, it is
> also 'more anonymous' in that there is no way the edit can be traced
> back to a real person, whereas the contributions through the twitter
> scheme could at least be traced back to a user account.

Yes. And I'm not really supportive of the "wheelmap visitor"; if others 
come along saying "if wheelmap can do that then I can do it too", I'd 
vote for disallowing any smallest anonymous edit, including wheelmap, 
rather than seeing this proliferate.

Bye
Frederik



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