Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits by user OpenBeerMapContributor

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 2014-09-21 um 12:07 schrieb Michael Reichert: > I have discovered that the user OpenBeerMapContributor [1] uploads > anonymous edits from OpenBeerMap [2] to OSM database. > > Users can edit parts of OSM data via OpenBeerMap. The can add/modify the > tags brewery=*, opening_hours=*, name=*,

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits by user OpenBeerMapContributor

2014-09-21 Thread Dave F.
This post appears to reflect OpenBeerMapContributor's attitude: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/OpenBeerMapContributor/diary/22349#comment26854 Loving the irony in this statement: "English people seems to love to be in contradiction with the French ones !" Dave F. On 21/09/2014 11:07, Michae

[OSM-talk] Anonymous edits by user OpenBeerMapContributor

2014-09-21 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, I have discovered that the user OpenBeerMapContributor [1] uploads anonymous edits from OpenBeerMap [2] to OSM database. Users can edit parts of OSM data via OpenBeerMap. The can add/modify the tags brewery=*, opening_hours=*, name=*, internet_access=*, brewery:note=* and "Happy Hours" (I don

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-28 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 28/05/2011 09:17, Martijn van Exel a écrit : Yes, it would deliberately be constrained to nodes. Checking existing nodes would definitely have to be part of it, using (fuzzy) name matching within a radius of the new object. Fact remains that the location may be less accurate than desirable, du

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-28 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi Serge, On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > Martijn, I'm going to re-arange the sentences here to make it easier to > respond. > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Consider the following applicaton scheme: >> * a twitter user se

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-27 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Martijn, I'm going to re-arange the sentences here to make it easier to respond. On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > Consider the following applicaton scheme: > * a twitter user sends a geo-located tweet containing a specified > hashtag, say #addosm and key-valu

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/27/2011 08:06 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: The one thing I do see as a real issue I don't think that the requirement of being able to contact someone (without first setting up a twitter account) is "not real"! is the legal one. All twitter POI contributions would be added through

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Martijn van Exel wrote: >> >> That is exactly why I started this thread - to see how (un)acceptable >> it is to do (semi) anonymous edits. > > An important reason against anonymous edits is accountability. We want to be > able to con

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Martijn van Exel wrote: That is exactly why I started this thread - to see how (un)acceptable it is to do (semi) anonymous edits. An important reason against anonymous edits is accountability. We want to be able to contact someone and ask them: Why did you add that? What did you mean by

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:25 PM, John Smith wrote: > On 27 May 2011 04:19, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> Totally anonymous edits existed once in OSM, until 2007. See the first >> link in my original message (mysteriously not referred to in the >> message body..hm). They were abandoned for different

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Josh Doe wrote: > I think that's a great idea! However I don't believe it should be > directly added to the OSM database, since the POI may already exist, > or there could be other problems. Instead why not create an .osm file > and allow others to add/merge it to

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Thread John Smith
On 27 May 2011 04:19, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Totally anonymous edits existed once in OSM, until 2007. See the first > link in my original message (mysteriously not referred to in the > message body..hm). They were abandoned for different reasons I > believe, the wiki page gives some explanation

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:02 PM, John Smith wrote: > On 27 May 2011 03:51, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Consider the following application scheme: >> * a twitter user sends a geo-located tweet containing a specified >> hashtag, say #addosm and key-value pairs like "amenity:pub;name:Re

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Thread John F. Eldredge
Verizon Wireless -Original message- From: Martijn van Exel To: Talk Openstreetmap Sent: Thu, May 26, 2011 17:51:07 GMT+00:00 Subject: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits Hi all, Consider the following application scheme: * a twitter user sends a geo-located tweet containing a specified hashtag

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Thread Josh Doe
I think that's a great idea! However I don't believe it should be directly added to the OSM database, since the POI may already exist, or there could be other problems. Instead why not create an .osm file and allow others to add/merge it to OSM using tools like JOSM? An even better idea might be to

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Thread John Smith
On 27 May 2011 03:51, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > Consider the following application scheme: > * a twitter user sends a geo-located tweet containing a specified > hashtag, say #addosm and key-value pairs like "amenity:pub;name:Red > Devil;smoking:yes" > * a twitter scraper picks up the t

[OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, Consider the following application scheme: * a twitter user sends a geo-located tweet containing a specified hashtag, say #addosm and key-value pairs like "amenity:pub;name:Red Devil;smoking:yes" * a twitter scraper picks up the tweet, archives it and posts a new point using the twitter co

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-10 Thread OJ W
If we wanted to explicitly support this kind of thing then putting OSM-related servers on i2p might be useful. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-09 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 7 October 2010 18:26, Al Haraka wrote: >> But hiding your real IP from the server is only one part of tor. The >> other is encrypting and obscuring the destination of all traffic so >> that your ISP/government/etc can't listen in. This is what makes it >> useful for people in places like Iran a

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-09 Thread Johann H. Addicks
> is anyone contributing to OpenStreetMap by using Tor? (the onion router) if i where sitting in china, mapping for OSM, i would certainly use tor for this... -jha- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listin

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-07 Thread Al Haraka
> But hiding your real IP from the server is only one part of tor. The > other is encrypting and obscuring the destination of all traffic so > that your ISP/government/etc can't listen in. This is what makes it > useful for people in places like Iran and China. They don't care about > hiding their

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-07 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2010-10-07 at 10:04:06 -0500, Toby Murray wrote: > I guess I'm not sure what benefit tor has to potential mappers. At the > end of the day you still have to log in to OSM with an OSM user name > which is associated with an email address. I guess you could go to the > trouble of setting up an ema

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-07 Thread Toby Murray
Typically the way I've seen it set up, the browser is configured to send requests through a proxy that is running on the local machine which then routes traffic out over tor. So most (all?) flash and even some javascript won't be affected and will send traffic out from your real IP without tor. The

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-07 Thread john
On the other hand, TOR also helps dissidents in places with restrictive governments communicate with the outside world. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor >From :mailto:p...@ontology2.com Date :Thu Oct 07 08:38:25 America/Chic

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-07 Thread Paul Houle
On 10/6/2010 6:19 PM, Brendan Morley wrote: It will be good to check for sure. Certainly in my CommonMap project it's a different story, I'm using Apache httpd as the web server. Out of the box httpd logs IP addresses in the access_log. I think OSM is also using Apache httpd now as well.

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-07 Thread Kevin Peat
Not sure about the security benefits of using Tor with OSM but I have messed with it in the past and the performance can be pretty poor and probably not great for an interactive Potlatch session. I've also read somewhere that flash apps can easily give away your local IP even when using Tor. Kevin

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-06 Thread Brendan Morley
On 7/10/2010 7:57 AM, Emilie Laffray wrote: On 6 October 2010 22:46, Niklas Cholmkvist > wrote: Hi, is anyone contributing to OpenStreetMap by using Tor? (the onion router) Is there any opinion from anyone about this? Tor is used to strengthen on

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-06 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 6 October 2010 22:46, Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: > Hi, > > is anyone contributing to OpenStreetMap by using Tor? (the onion router) > Is there any opinion from anyone about this? Tor is used to strengthen > ones privacy by the technology trying to prevent revealing the ip > address of the user.

[OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-06 Thread Niklas Cholmkvist
Hi, is anyone contributing to OpenStreetMap by using Tor? (the onion router) Is there any opinion from anyone about this? Tor is used to strengthen ones privacy by the technology trying to prevent revealing the ip address of the user. Regards, Niklas -- signature.asc Description: This is a di