Wednesday 02 September 2015 13:51:09, André Pirard: > What policy, what purpose, that's unclear? > Is OSM.org using that API to display the history on the screen illegal? > Is Osmose using it to attribute errors to some user illegal? > Yep, I suppose that making oneself a complete list of OSM users is > inappropriate.
No, the osm.org site doesn't use the API. Rather, it queries the database directly. I think it's not about "illegal" in the sense of prohibited out of privacy concerns or the like, but about the fact that we don't have unlimited capacity and that mappers mapping should not be hindered by people that want to query the API for unrelated uses. -- The field "from" of an email is about as reliable as the address written on the back of an envelope. That's why this message is OpenPGP signed.
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