Simon Poole

The popular tagging scheme for shops selling/renting/servicing sport goods is shop=sports plus a (potentially multi-valued) sport=* tag. Suddenly splitting these things all out in to separate shop values doesn't make...

The difference is that shop=sports + sport=* is reasonably popular, whereas the "specialized" values have minuscule use except in the cases where there is actually a clearly well defined shop...

No, the wiki is descriptive, not prescriptive.

See https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/7880#issuecomment-674495542

> My main question would be: what is the target audience for this information? Are downstream data consumers interested in this information? Read: do we need to include this information...

OSM now has OAuth 2.0 support, I don't think there is any documentation at this point, but it may make things easier. Documentation link https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OAuth#OAuth_2.0

In general a lot of the questionable stuff in the presets comes from the original JOSM version. I'm a bit reluctant to change these things without good reasons as on...

To maybe point out the obvious: - turning off basic auth is mainly a question of improving security / control on osm.org. 3rd party installs will likely continue to use...

> I don't have much visibility To illustrate the issue why it is very difficult/near impossible to know anything about how our systems are used: There's an Indian project/utility/group of...

>  I don't know if Vespucci has a similar "startup news" page that can be updated out-of-band. As a rule we don't phone home.