Good afternoon,
I think in future when there will be more space on servers it would be a
good idea to add a possibility to attach an optional image to a note for
the registered users.
Nowadays a lot of people do have a good camera in their pockets. After
the note is closed down the JPG file could be deleted from the server.
For example, opening hours, the number of levels of a building, the name
of a bus stop, etc. could be demonstrated effectively and unequivocally
by a 100 KB image.
The modern programming languages are capable to check not only a file
extension but to verify that it is actually the JPG or the PNG image
file, so it is possible to create more or less effective protection
against unlikely attacks.
I know that there are websites where street-view images could be
uploaded, but I mean an image to illustrate the specific point of a note.
Best regards,
Oleksiy (Alex-7@OSM)
On 29-Aug-19 23:46, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
after two years of discussing the pros and cons, a decision has now been
reached to disallow anonymous comments on notes.
Up until two days ago, anonymous (i.e. not logged-in) users could create
notes and comment on existing notes; the only thing they could not do
was close a note.
Now, anonymous users can *still* create notes, but they cannot comment
on or close existing notes.
In the long discussions leading up to this decision (see
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1543 and
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1926) we
agreed that anonymous comments on notes are rarely useful, and when they
are, they come mostly from users who have just forgotten to log in. This
was weighed against recent massive spam and vandalism activities which
rendered the notes system near unusuable in some regions. Perversely, it
is much easier to fight a vandal creating new, useless notes (by just
closing them) than it is to clean up their droppings from existing notes.
Bye
Frederik
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