On 02/04/2008, Cartinus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > there's no reason (in theory) the person carrying out the import of > > the second, or third, or whatever, 'approved' source, couldn't > > temporarily be given write-status for that tag. it was only intended > > to be read-only for the majority of users, who editing/adding things > > one component at a time > > > This would need people in charge of granting rights to other people. Which I > don't think is part of the spirit of OSM at the moment. (That's part of the
well, it happens already. there are parts of osm that i don't have access to, and if i asked steve or anyone else with the keys, they would likely say no unless i had a good reason. ok, it's the infrastructure not the data, but the point still stands > unwanted part.) Plus it still wouldn't prevent me from using the "delete and > recreate" method if I wasn't granted those rights. (That's the futile part.) true, but as i suggested in a previous mail, i'm not sure why someone would need to do this. if a user is importing another dataset which needs attribution, they would likely be someone responsible/trusted, and given temporary rights to add to the 'attributions' tag. who else would need to edit it? i can't see a situation where anyone would feel a need to delete and then re-create? what would they gain, in real terms? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
