Hi,
Frederik Ramm wrote:
lulu-...@gmx.de wrote:
As the topic of the map is discussed controversely, vandalism is
likely to happen, I am afraid.
If the user attempts to use OSM as a vehicle to further his own side in
whatever "controversy" you are alluding to, risking to bring lots of
vandals upon OSM, then that might be a reason to ask him to stop it.
I have talked to the people in question. It is about a map for Bavaria
showing in which bars/restaurants you are allowed to smoke. They are
about to have a referendum about that and they have some tensions in the
population. The map will be biased towards non-smoking (displaying
something like a red traffic light for those where smoking is allowed
etc.), and they will have an editor that allows anyone to edit the value
of the "smoking" tag. These edits will not be live edits but instead be
queued to be later uploaded by one of the map team members, going
through the usual JOSM conflict resolution where necessary.
This is sub-optimal (preferably everyone should create an account and
make live edits through OAuth) but then again, as long as the change is
limited to the value of the "smoking" tag - no creation of new nodes, no
deletion of nodes, no modifications to other tags - and since they
themselves are the only serious user of that tag, any sort of vandalism
will hurt themselves mainly so I think this is a non-issue.
Bye
Frederik
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