Paul, MapRoulette is unconcerned about other instances, just as osm.org is unconcerned with other openstreetmap-website instances.
- Serge On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Paul Norman <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 1:10 PM >> To: OpenStreetMap Development >> Subject: [OSM-dev] MapRoulette requests OSM permissions >> >> Initially, we thought we would probably use osm.org's internal system >> of storing user data in key/value pairs to store information about the >> user from MapRoulette, for example, choosing which challenge they >> wanted to have by default, but ultimately we moved away from this >> choice because making the external calls to osm.org was more expensive >> than making local db lookups. > > I'd suggest only doing this for preferences across multiple MapRoulette > instances (MapRoulette preferences, rather than MapRoulette.org preferences) > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
