[OSM-talk] Anonymous Editing

2009-02-03 Thread Etienne
There was discussion in this forum recently about anonymous editing. Consequently, the subject was raised at the OSMF board meeting on 24/25 January. All board members were of the opinion that anonymous editing should be disallowed. It was resolved that unless serious and legitimate objections

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous editing

2009-01-23 Thread AJH
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:11:57 +, Andy Allan wrote: I'd like to promote the term untraceable editing or something similar. What we're left with is still anonymous, just that we (non-server-admin) people can differentiate between two anonymous accounts. We'll still have no idea who they are.

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous editing

2009-01-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, AJH wrote: I'd like to promote the term untraceable editing or something similar. What we're left with is still anonymous, just that we (non-server-admin) people can differentiate between two anonymous accounts. We'll still have no idea who they are. The big benefits from OSM are

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous editing

2009-01-23 Thread Pieren
Looking backward into archives, it seems that only one or two persons are blocking the change... I know one friend who stopped contributing to the project when he saw his work anonymously downgraded and how easy it was. Probably he is not the only one in this case. All arguments have been already

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous editing

2009-01-23 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/1/23 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: Looking backward into archives, it seems that only one or two persons are blocking the change... I know one friend who stopped contributing to the project when he saw his work anonymously downgraded and how easy it was. Probably he is not the only one in

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous editing

2009-01-21 Thread Erik Johansson
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Erik Johansson e...@kth.se wrote: Letting 3rd party web applications write to the database isn't solved, but is there anyone using such a tool? Not that it has anything to do with this discussion, since you need to authenticate anyways, sorry.

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous editing

2009-01-20 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Yay for 0.6 going live in March. Can we take this opportunity to finally disable anonymous editing? I'd certainly like to. If the consensus is that it's nothing to do with 0.6 we can alternatively make it part of

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous editing

2009-01-20 Thread Chris Hill
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Yay for 0.6 going live in March. +1 Can we take this opportunity to finally disable anonymous editing? +1 Cheers, Chris ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous editing

2009-01-20 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 08:37:32PM +, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Yay for 0.6 going live in March. \o/ Can we take this opportunity to finally disable anonymous editing? Yes, please. Yeah, it’s just an “I agree” post, sorry. Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous editing

2009-01-20 Thread Nop
Richard Fairhurst schrieb: Yay for 0.6 going live in March. +1 Can we take this opportunity to finally disable anonymous editing? +1 bye Nop ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk