> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jochen Topf [mailto:joc...@remote.org]
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 7:17 AM
> To: Serge Wroclawski
> Cc: OpenStreetMap Development
> Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Sending messages to users
> 
> On Mo, Mai 05, 2014 at 09:52:43 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> > MapRoulette has made a choice to try to collect as little data from
> > our users as possible. We don't require a separate login other than
> > from osm.org, we don't collect email addresses or anything else.
> 
> Unfortunately when I wanted to try MapRoulette and had to do the OAuth
> thing on osm.org it asked for:
> * read your user preferences.
> * modify your user preferences.
> 
> I am not sure what "user preferences" entails, but for me that sounds
> like "allow to change password" and "allow to set home location" etc. 
> All things MapRoulette doesn't need to change.

User preferences are arbitrary key-value pairs. I don't think it includes 
other things, which aren't part of the API. Preferences is reasonably clear
to me, but can you suggest an alternative wording?


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