Hi, [email protected] wrote: > Why not give away the map data (that's all we need for JOSM) without > authentication?
Map data can be read without authentication. It is only for writing that you need username/password. > Probably to keep track of changes and vadalism and to block or ban users > after such. Blocking and banning users is very seldomly done as they can simply create a new account any time they are banned. The most important feature of linking users to edits is to make it possible for other users to contact you about your edits. > So I don't want to be blocked. I don't want to generate new accounts and > loose my statistics and history just because someone messed around > in my name. Why would someone mess around in your name? What is your name anyway, I mean, there are 160.000 user names and nobody knows which one of them is yours. Maybe we should use numbers instead of names for login ;-) Your other question about https - there is concern that using https throughout would require considerably more CPU power on the servers and slow down interactive editing. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
