[OSM-talk] Account confirmation email delays

[John Whelan]

Much of HOT mapping at the moment seems to be buildings.

JOSM with the buildings_tool plugin would have the advantage of you can 
save the changes to a file and upload them later when an account is 
available.  This might well be the organiser's account.  The downside 
would be a few square huts rather than round, the upside would be a new 
mapper can map twice as many buildings in the same time period.

I'd suggest the use of Microsoft's openjdk rather than Oracle JAVA to 
avoid any security concerns for work laptops.

Taking this further, for building mapping you don't really need to be 
online.  Taking a snapshot of OSM the day before then mapping the next 
day will not overlap other mappers 99.99% of the time and there are 
scripts that can be used to identify duplicate buildings.

So set up a small LAN, a preconfigured SSD, run JOSM from LAN share, 
cache the image tiles, and you can run a mapathon off line.  You might 
need to be able to lock a block of tiles for say three days in task 
manager but technically that isn't impossible to do.

Cheerio John

Pete Masters via talk wrote on 11/11/2021 2:31 AM:
> Hi all,
>
> A couple of people have commented on an old OSM diary of mine [1 
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pedrito1414/diary/23584#comment51227>] 
> that the account confirmation email (sent to new mappers as part of 
> registration) is taking a long time. Sometimes long enough that people 
> don't get to map during an event.
>
> I just wanted to flag this with the right people - if this is the 
> wrong place, please point me in the right direction...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pete
>
>
> [1] 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pedrito1414/diary/23584#comment51227
>
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