[OSM-talk] Anonymous comments on notes now disabled

[Mateusz Konieczny]

1 Sep 2019, 17:53 by oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch:

> On 9/1/19 09:50, joost schouppe wrote:
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>> Op vr 30 aug. 2019 13:15              schreef Oleksiy Muzalyev <>> oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch <mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>>> >:
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>>> I think in future when there will be more space on servers              it would be a 
>>>  good idea to add a possibility to attach an optional image              to a note for 
>>>  the registered users.
>>>
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>> Images are a really useful addition to a written          Note. But it could be handled without having to host the          actual images. A user interface could just upload them          somewhere, and add the url to the note.
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> It certainly could be done like this. Though there will be more      clicks for a note. I do not remember the exact statistics figures,      - something like each excessive click drops about 20% of potential      users. That is why organizations, which could afford usability      studies, implement various "one-click buying" solutions.
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> Images could be uploaded and stored on a separate server. There      will be no other connection to production serves except HTML IMG      tags in notes. An image file size could be limited at first to say      100 KB. Even if an attacker manages to pass the security filters      and upload a pseudo-image file with a malicious code (what is      unlikely) nothing dramatic would happen. There will be no images      in notes for several hours until the OS is reinstalled on the      server and the files restored from a backup.
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> I was recently asked to participate in mapping of a small town in      a region several thousand kilometers from my location. I could not      understand what kind of threes they have there. Are they      broad-leaved or needle-leaved, - I could not see it from satellite      images. There were no photos in its Wikipedia page. I could      neither see what type of paths they have. One or two 100 KB      survey-style photos would be enough.
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> ref.: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click>
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Note that StreetComplete already has
well working version of
"Create note with linked image"
(bottom left icon allows to create note
and attach image - note also that 
StreetComplete will ask for login 
info after making about 10 edits).
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