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<h2>Public editing</h2>
Currently your edits are anonymous and people can't send you messages or see your location. To show what you edited and allow people to contact you through the website, click the button below.
- <b>You will need to do this if you want to use the online editor and it is encouraged to do so</b> (<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Disabling_anonymous_edits">find out why</a>).<br />
+ <b>Since the 0.6 API changeover, only public users can edit map data</b>. (<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Disabling_anonymous_edits">find out why</a>).<br />
Your email address will not be revealed by becoming public.<br />
This action cannot be reversed and all new users are now public by default.<br />
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