[Tilesathome] Upload permissions for distributed server

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> The analogy to Wikipedia doesn't hold: The entry barrier for  
> contributors there should be as low as possible, because they are,  
> well, the contributors.

Hm. At least you're in favour of anonymous OSM access then ;-)?

> Tile processors and uploaders on the other hand are not the casual  
> contributors of content, our equivalent here would rather be GPX  
> track uploaders. Making it a little more bothersome to get such an  
> account won't hurt here.

Fact is: We (OSM/t at h) want something from them (renderers) - we  
should never act as if they need to come asking "please can I donate  
my bandwidth and CPU capacity to you, I promise to be good".

Bye
Frederik

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