[OSM-talk] Anonymous edits by user OpenBeerMapContributor

[Dave F.]

This post appears to reflect OpenBeerMapContributor's attitude:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/OpenBeerMapContributor/diary/22349#comment26854

Loving the irony in this statement:
"English people seems to love to be in contradiction with the French ones !"

Dave F.

On 21/09/2014 11:07, Michael Reichert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have discovered that the user OpenBeerMapContributor [1] uploads
> anonymous edits from OpenBeerMap [2] to OSM database.
>
> Users can edit parts of OSM data via OpenBeerMap. The can add/modify the
> tags brewery=*, opening_hours=*, name=*, internet_access=*,
> brewery:note=* and "Happy Hours" (I don't know where this information is
> being written to). They do not have to log in.
>
> The website itself does not inform users that their edits will be
> written to OSM database. This is problem. Therefore, edits may contain
> wrong formatted opening hours information or copyright infringement and
> OSM users cannot contact the users.
>
> The good thing: Users cannot add new POIs, i.e. they cannot create
> duplicates.
>
> As far as I know, only to accounts have the permission to do anonymous
> edits, wheelmap_visitor [3] and kort-to-osm [4].
>
> wheelmap_visitor only edits wheelchair=* and wheelchair:description=*.
> This is much less information than OpenBeerMap users can do.
>
> Has Singing-Poppy, maintainer of OpenBeerMap, requested for doing
> anonymous edits? If yes, where is this permission documented?
>
> I have send a PN to user Singing-Poppy that I have written this mail to
> talk mailing list.
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/OpenBeerMapContributor
> [2] https://openbeermap.github.io/
> [3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wheelmap_visitor
> [4] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kort-to-osm
>
>
>
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