Re: [OSM-talk] Mobile Application for optimizing OSM ski area data

On 2018-10-26 14:22, Valentina Böhm wrote: What would you recommend regarding authentication? Is it ok if users of my app are committing data on my behalf or should all users have their own OSM account? I would not let users edit on your account. Then you will get the comments and possibly gr

Re: [OSM-talk] Mobile Application for optimizing OSM ski area data

Hi, On 26.10.2018 14:22, Valentina Böhm wrote: > What would you recommend regarding authentication? Is it ok if users of > my app are committing data on my behalf or should all users have their > own OSM account? Using a central account for aggregated user contributions is discouraged; if some of

Re: [OSM-talk] Mobile Application for optimizing OSM ski area data

A middle ground could be that your users upload a gpx file with osm-compatible information so that more skilled OSM contributors can use them to edit the map. It relieve your app from the burden of being a map editor. However, information will probably be lost in the process, we prefer first hand

Re: [OSM-talk] Mobile Application for optimizing OSM ski area data

As others have said, users should authenticate with their own OSM accounts so that malicious edits can be detected. There's a very good Java library - osmapi - which I would strongly recommend for doing editing from within an Android app. It's developed by Tobias Zwick, developer of StreetCom

Re: [OSM-talk] Mobile Application for optimizing OSM ski area data

26. Oct 2018 14:22 by v...@live.at : > > I am planning to develop an mobile app to optimize ski area data provided by > OSM. The user should be able to use the app for locating him- or herself in a > ski area and have a look at all the different slopes and lifts and all the