[OSM-talk] Changing OSM Username is easy | Re: Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper

[Rory McCann]

On 03/11/2019 19:19, Blake Girardot wrote:
> I am not happy about it and I could get my osm username changed
 > ...
 > If you have a username that is tied to a public or other used name of
 > some sort, my advice is to ask the user name to be changed.

Just for anyone who wants to do this, changing your OSM username is very 
easy, it's the in the “My Settings” page when you log in and click on 
the drop down in the top right, and is the “Display Name” field. You'll 
have to re-log into all apps. You don't have to ask anyone. It happens 
immediately.

> that is not really adequate as anyone who has a record of my username
> and osm userid number over the past 10 years, can still select all of
> my edits.

Yep, a person's edits can still be tracked through the uid which cannot 
be changed, so this isn't something that works.

Creating a new account is a much better approach.