On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:01:50 +0100 Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote:
> for 0.6 editing, JOSM will stop adding "created_by" tags to > individual objects (and might even remove existing ones, subject to > discussion) because I consider this unecessary database pollution. > Instead, the software and version will be available from the > changeset tags. I assume that other editors will behave likewise? > > Does anyone want to suggest a set of tags for the changeset? The API > wiki page uses, in an example, "created_by=JOSM 1.61". I am slightly > in favour of doing something like > > client=JOSM > client-version=1234 > I'd rather use the term "user-agent", simply because this is closer to what already works well (HTTP). Align where we can, I say. HTTP clients typically concatenate version into the UA string (including plug-ins), but that's because they (sort of) have to. I think it could reduce the parsing load a little to put it in a separate attribute. > For JOSM, I also intend to add something like > "client-plugins=a,b,c,d" where the installed plugins are listed but > that's subject to discussion (may be deemed to invade user's privacy > because everyone can then see what plugins he's using). > This shouldn't hurt, either. On privacy, again, good web clients will allow users to set the details of their User Agent string. If this is a concern, it's probably not hard for our editors to follow that model. Cheers _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
