Simon Poole

The OSMF privacy policy specifically points out that changing the display name is a privacy feature of the website. Definitely tracking previous names is a violation of both the GDPR...

> how can changing the display name be a privacy feature if the connected and public user id always remains the same? Because it allows users to change away from...

> > Definitely tracking previous names is a violation of both the GDPR and the OSMF ToSs outside of internal use by the DWG. > > (the usual caveat -...

> * sort imagery by: > > * best flag: "starred" layers on top > * overlay flag: overlays after background layers > * rough layer size: smaller "regional" layers...

Just as a data point: no issues with Vespucci that I could see, current 2022 Maxar imagery here, just as on bing.com/maps. This commit https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/commit/66c5007fc219615516361d1c69a55892fee5a503 changes the meta data API...

@boothym likely the key is invalid and iD using the failover url that it has defined. The main thing is it would be nice to know from MS/Bing what is...

> OSM has a [licence](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/d/d8/Bing_license.pdf) for Bing imagery. OSM has special permission to use Bing imagery in ways not allowed by others. It does not make any representations as to...

> Who manages OSM's agreement with Microsoft? @simonpoole Nobody, that's part of the problem. Conceivably the EWG could do it with input from the LWG (that would avoid similar issues...

> Why can't this be sorted in iD for everyone, given the two alternatives above, and not just for those who have read this thread? Well there is: >In addition,...

@alexilisei the only really valid reason to sign up is to edit as nearly all functionality is available without login in the first place and the small things that aren't,...