Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous contributions still allowed ?

2008-04-07 Thread Gervase Markham
Richard Fairhurst wrote: It's only Potlatch that prohibits such edits. JOSM and the main API permit them. Can we please agree to stop doing that, and then turn off the capability? It's just storing up trouble for later, when and if we want to make licence-related changes... Gerv

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous contributions still allowed ?

2008-04-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Can we please agree to stop doing that, and then turn off the capability? It's just storing up trouble for later, when and if we want to make licence-related changes... No it's not. The information on who did what is in the database, and always has been. It's just that unless you're

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous contributions still allowed ?

2008-04-05 Thread Pieren Pieren
It's only Potlatch that prohibits such edits. JOSM and the main API permit them. cheers Richard Thanks for the answer. And is something planned in the future for those who registered before Nov. 2007 (e.g. force the 'public' edition flag in the osm user profile) or in the main API (e.g.

[OSM-talk] anonymous contributions still allowed ?

2008-04-04 Thread Pieren Pieren
Hi all, By accident, I found some contributions made in March 16th this year but with some mistakes. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.25977lon=7.42248zoom=16layers=B0FT As usual, I wanted to contact the person but I was surprised to see that this recent edition is anonymous:

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous contributions still allowed ?

2008-04-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren Pieren wrote: Potlach history just says 'anonymous'. The way was created with JOSM. I thought that such anonymous editions are not possible since Nov. 2007. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Disabling_anonymous_edits