Many know Pascal Neis' site HDYC which displays detais about an OSM user, like first created node, activity area, edit stats and so on:
http://hdyc.neis-one.org/ Today to view any stats of a user you have to login with OSM. Pascal replied to me that this is related to this discussion on the German users forum: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=57813 I don't like the idea how this was never introduced and discussed outside of the German forum. I think that such "privacy" measures are futile and go against the spirit of OSM - transparency. Maybe this is due to some "moral panic" in Germany revolving around privacy, just like StreetView ban - except it's made clear that your edits are public and you agree to it! Michał _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk