On 9 June 2010 09:22, Ben Last <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9 June 2010 09:13, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I suspect this approach will prove controversial. Is there really no >> way you can integrate user registrations? > > There's no convenient way. We could bounce a user off to the OSM site to > register, but this is complex because they then need to confirm an email, > and after the signup there (appears to be) no convenient way to bring them > back to our site. We'd then have to ask them to enter their OSM username and > password since we can't easily tell whether they are registered/logged in > with OSM (the OSM login cookies are for the openstreetmap.org domain). In > short, the OSM site doesn't appear to have been designed with the intention > of supporting login integration with external services. > There are ways around many of the issues, but we'd end up doing a fair > amount of work to integrate closely with an external site that may then > change the way it works, breaking the flow for our users.
OSM does support OAuth: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OAuth which helps with bringing people back to the site and doesn't require you to know their username and password. It is a standard, although doesn't help with the initial registration. James _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
