[Tilesathome] [osm at sspaeth.de: Re: Upload permissions for distributed server]

[spaetz]

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From: spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:53:26 +0200
To: tilesathome at openstreetmap.org
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:25:25PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:

Guys, isn't that discussing nitpick thingies there? I propose to focus the attention on more important things. Whether uploads are protected by GPG key, password or not at all is really not all that important here.
As it is we have more than plenty of upload capacity, so we will probably only need a small, not that-quickly changing number of uploaders. If they need to create a gpg key, rather than asking for an upload password, then be it. It really doesn't matter.

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. 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.

spaetz



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