Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-07 Thread Al Haraka
> But hiding your real IP from the server is only one part of tor. The > other is encrypting and obscuring the destination of all traffic so > that your ISP/government/etc can't listen in. This is what makes it > useful for people in places like Iran and China. They don't care about > hiding their

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-07 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2010-10-07 at 10:04:06 -0500, Toby Murray wrote: > I guess I'm not sure what benefit tor has to potential mappers. At the > end of the day you still have to log in to OSM with an OSM user name > which is associated with an email address. I guess you could go to the > trouble of setting up an ema

Re: [OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo

2010-10-07 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: I think that what he means is that he would prefer to use a vertical scrollbar on the entire browser window, rather than a scrollbar on the table. Same here - I would rather scroll the entire browser window than just the table. Scrolling the whole browser window can

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-07 Thread Toby Murray
Typically the way I've seen it set up, the browser is configured to send requests through a proxy that is running on the local machine which then routes traffic out over tor. So most (all?) flash and even some javascript won't be affected and will send traffic out from your real IP without tor. The

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-07 Thread john
On the other hand, TOR also helps dissidents in places with restrictive governments communicate with the outside world. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor >From :mailto:p...@ontology2.com Date :Thu Oct 07 08:38:25 America/Chicago 20

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-07 Thread Paul Houle
On 10/6/2010 6:19 PM, Brendan Morley wrote: It will be good to check for sure. Certainly in my CommonMap project it's a different story, I'm using Apache httpd as the web server. Out of the box httpd logs IP addresses in the access_log. I think OSM is also using Apache httpd now as well.

Re: [OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo

2010-10-07 Thread Peter Körner
Am 07.10.2010 13:42, schrieb Sebastian Klein: He talks about the *vertical* scrollbar which is really quite annoying. Take this page for example: No, in my world the vertical scrollbar scrolls up and down... I'm sorry it seems I have misunderstood you. Could you make a screenshot and post it

Re: [OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo

2010-10-07 Thread john
I think that what he means is that he would prefer to use a vertical scrollbar on the entire browser window, rather than a scrollbar on the table. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo >From :mailto:basti...@googlemail.com Date :Thu Oct 07 06:42:23 America/Chi

Re: [OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo

2010-10-07 Thread Sebastian Klein
Peter Körner wrote: Am 05.10.2010 19:13, schrieb Jochen Topf: I am not sure I quite understand, what you want. You don't want a scrollbar but still see 500 entries on your screen? How big is your monitor? :-) He talks about the *vertical* scrollbar which is really quite annoying. Take this p

Re: [OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo

2010-10-07 Thread Sebastian Klein
Jochen Topf wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 06:54:04PM +0200, Sebastian Klein wrote: I'd prefer if it would not show a vertical scrollbar. This way you could use the full height of your monitor to read the results. Would it be too much to ask for, like, a maximum of 500 entries per page instea

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-07 Thread Kevin Peat
Not sure about the security benefits of using Tor with OSM but I have messed with it in the past and the performance can be pretty poor and probably not great for an interactive Potlatch session. I've also read somewhere that flash apps can easily give away your local IP even when using Tor. Kevin

Re: [OSM-talk] Pretty typographic music video (was: OSM-derived Art Maps)

2010-10-07 Thread Claudius
Am 07.10.2010 02:42, andrzej zaborowski: On 7 October 2010 01:57, Richard Weait wrote: I'm not entirely sure what axismaps.com does but it sure seems to involve a lot of pretty maps. This caught my attention when pointed out to me by OSM contributor RichardF. These unique maps of Chicago and

Re: [OSM-talk] If you've missed this ...

2010-10-07 Thread Mike Collinson
My very best to Steve. I've been through this with my own baby, a digital animation company, and it is a bruising experience. I continue to welcome in the OSM community anyone who is lucky enough to be also professionally or entrepreneurially engaged and personally rather hope Steve finds a ne

Re: [OSM-talk] Doing God's Work / Oliver Kuehn interviews Jack Dangermond

2010-10-07 Thread Lennard
On 7-10-2010 9:10, maning sambale wrote: Is this the ArcGIS extension Jack mentioned? http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/tags/created_by=ArcGIS%20Exporter 2.55% of the created_by values Wait, what? Now that the major editors have migrated to putting created_by on changesets instead of the actual

Re: [OSM-talk] Doing God's Work / Oliver Kuehn interviews Jack Dangermond

2010-10-07 Thread maning sambale
Is this the ArcGIS extension Jack mentioned? http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/tags/created_by=ArcGIS%20Exporter 2.55% of the created_by values On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >   anyone who isn't hooked to the hip & trendy new age information fragment > services might