Hi, Chris Hill wrote: > Is it too late to ban anonymous edits in API 0.6?
It is not something that changes the API (it requires a code change but the interface remains unchanged) so it can be done any time - either now, or when API 0.6 is introduced, or any time after that. It is predominantly a matter of communication; we need no tell the poor people why they cannot make changes and how to remedy that. And of course it is a matter of building consensus. Last time we discussed the issue, an (IMHO) overwhelming majority were in favour of banning anonymous edits but among those wo said let's keep the practice was the founder of the project & chairman of OSMF so the discussion fizzled somewhat ;-) His argument was that there may be places where you face legal trouble for mapping and we need to allow these people to remain unidentifiable. - I still think that anyone mapping in such a place would be better off using a series of throwaway accounts anyway, whether we make all edits public or not. Nobody has said we need to publish the user's identity, just the screen name... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
