On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:20 PM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 5 August 2010 08:02, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the point that Frederik was trying to make was that this model > > ("bulk imported in real time") is not ideal. Ideally, we want the users > > interacting directly with the OSM API rather than going through some > > intermediary service. > > It's obvious that Nearmap, and others, want something simpler than > potlatch to allow people to add their home address or even just a > missing street name as a one off, sure this might get abused and it > will be up to Nearmap or others running these services to deal with > abuse or face the problem of having their account blocked until they > can. Making this process unnecessarily complicated is exactly the > reason why Nearmap is attempting this in the first place. So let's talk about making that process easier instead of using the current broken system. > These users don't give a toss about licenses, they just want to fix a > mistake, such as a missing street name, why make things more > complicated than that? > Licensing is an important part of OSM, but I don't think I mentioned anything about licensing in my response... > > > OAuth was implemented for exactly this purpose. The user creates an > account > > on OSM.org, NearMap's client authenticates with OAuth, and the user can > make > > edits. It sounds like NearMap has an issue with sending the user off to > > OSM.org to generate a user account and trying to draw them back in to > > complete the OAuth process. > > It might have been, but that's authentication, not account creation, > which is the whole point Ben made in the first place, they don't want > to subject their users to multiple sets of terms and conditions and > confirming account creation and so on and so forth just to add a > street name, no wonder OSM is only for the geeks when the process has > to be so convoluted and overly engineered just to fix a simple mistake > like a missing street name. > Again, let's fix that problem instead of trying to wedge it into the current system.
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