Manuel Reimer wrote: > > Is it possible to use it to, for example, to let > an editor get access to OSM or is there still a "regular" OSM profile > needed? > As Matt has said, it is necessary (and will likely always stay this way) to create a "regular" OSM account, as it is needed for various purposes.
However, it would be nice if the OpenID signup flow was a bit smoother and a closer integration with the OAuth stuff would be good too. Just for demonstration purposes take the example of the embedded Potlatch 2 editor in open.mapquest.com. In order to edit, you need to have and login to an OpenStreetMap account. For this purpose, mapquest's P2 pops up a dialog with a link to the OAuth authorisation page. If you are not logged in (which you obviously aren't if you don't yet have an account), you get redirected to the login page. Now you can click on e.g. the google logo if you want to use your google openID. As a new user, you won't have an account associated yet, so it will redirect you to a pre filled out signup form, which you only need to confirm and then accept the contributor terms. However, at this point, the nice integration breaks down a bit. You first need verify your email address. You then need to go back to open.mapquest.com and start the authorisation procedure again, which requires to login again and then accept the OAuth authorisation request. It would be nicer, if after you have accepted the contributor terms, it would automatically accept the email address if the email address given is known to come from a trusted OpenID provider and thus we know it is a valid email address. Furthermore, it would possibly be nice, if you signup, coming from an OAuth authorisation request, it would automatically grant the authorisation process, or at least get you straight to the page to accept the request and then redirect you back to mapquest. In that case creating an OSM account would still require a few clicks (it is necessary anyway to accept the CTs), but would be a seamless experience from clicking the edit button on open.mapquest.com the first time to being able to edit the map in Potlatch. It would thus be close to not needing a "regular OSM account". Kai -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/openid-tp6490782p6491228.html Sent from the Developer Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
