[Tilesathome] [OSM-dev] Tiles at home - RFC on disabling tile meta-information

[OJW]

On Saturday 19 May 2007 15:59, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> I've just commited a few "emergency" fixes to tiles at home site
> >> directory in SVN which should disable the keeping of statistics for
> >> tiles of level13 and higher (the are not really needed). This should
> >> reduce the amount of "replace" queries by a factor of a few hundred
> >> once it is installed. (E-Mailed OJW separately.)
> >
> > Do we want to do that?  It would allow people to anonymously upload spam
> > images at Z>13, and have them displayed to anyone who views particular
> > areas.
>
> Since there's no automatic account creation for uploads, but people have
> instead to ask for an account by email, I think the risk of having
> spammers is negligible. Anyway there's still a log file giving details
> of who uploaded a zipfile when, and if really required, the last inode
> modification of the tile in question can be compared to the list of the
> uploads.
>

I'm still not sure it's as easy as that 

1: hundreds of people have upload access, most of whom I don't know. And that 
number is constantly growing

2: comparing file timestamps to the apache log of POSTs to the upload URL 
won't be that easy, not least because the upload process could easily take 
longer than the time between uploads

(the *average* time between uploads is currently 4 seconds, so I suspect there 
are periods of several uploads per second whose timestamps will overlap)