Tom Hughes wrote: > Well it will have to go to the WG for that. They will doubtless start by > sending him a direct email.
Is it just me who thinks that having a wiki which is open to everybody and doesn't have any controls over who can do what is utterly ludicrous? Yes, I'm a trusting soul, but even I think there ought to be limits. The thing which worries me most is that how can we expect organisations to take OSM seriously when we cannot be sure that the information in it isn't garbage and even when we do find garbage, we do nothing about making sure it doesn't happen again. The only reason we found out about Liam123 was because somebody said "This doesn't look right to me". How do we know there isn't another user who's messing about with things somewhere else? To my mind, nobody ought to be able to edit live map data unless: 1 - They have uploaded n tracks, 2 - They have had m edits approved by a moderator 3 - They are vouched for by somebody who has made many many edits (insert 'and' or 'or' or 'and/or' as appropriate) Anyway..... Another thought occurred to me. If I were Liam123, I'd be signed up to the mailing lists - where's the fun in distrubing the ants nest if you don't get to see the ants scurrying about trying to repair things? In that case, I'd say "Hello Liam123. If you would like to do something constructive, my money's betting that every single person on this list would like to help you help us." Nick. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
