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Creating an account

All you need to do to begin contributing on OldInsuranceMaps.net is create an account.

Sign up with email

Choose a username, password, and valid email address. Your username will be publicly visible, so you cannot use your email address as a username.

Note

You must agree that any contributions you make will be licensed CC0 ("No Rights Reserved"), meaning that your work is effectively in the public domain. See the Data Agreement for more details about this.

Sign up via 3rd-party authentication

You can optionally use a 3rd-party identity provider. Currently, only OpenStreetMap (OSM) is supported, but more identity providers will be configured in the future.

Creating a new account

  1. On the signup screen, click the OpenStreetMap logo and follow the prompts
    • You will be redirected to openstreetmap.org to sign into your OSM account
    • You will need to grant OldInsuranceMaps.net limited privileges on your OSM account
  2. You will then be redirected back to OldInsuranceMaps.net to complete the creation of your account
    • Your username will be prepopulated with your OSM username
    • You will still need to enter an e-mail address
    • You will not create a password, because OSM is (effectively) now your password!

Now, whenever you login to OldInsuranceMaps.net, just click the OSM icon and you'll be logged in automatically.

If you already have an OldInsuranceMaps.net account, but would like to be able to login with a 3rd-party identity provider, you can easily create a linkage between the accounts.

  1. Make sure you are already signed in with your username and password like usual.
    • If you aren't already signed in you could inadvertedly create a duplicate account.
  2. In your OldInsuranceMaps.net account (https://oldinsurancemaps.net/account/), go to Account Connections
  3. Click the OpenStreetMap logo and follow the prompts
    • You will be redirected to openstreetmap.org to sign into your OSM account
    • You will need to grant OldInsuranceMaps.net limited privileges on your OSM account

Now, whenever you login to OldInsuranceMaps.net, just click the OSM icon and you'll be logged in automatically.

You can unlink your OIM account with any 3rd-party identity provider at any time—this has no affect on your OIM account but you will just not be able to login through that provider any more.

To remove a connection to OpenStreetMap you will need to:

  1. In your OldInsuranceMaps.net account (https://oldinsurancemaps.net/account/), go to Account Connections, select the OSM connection and click Remove.
    • If your account does not yet have a password set (which would be the case if you intially created the account through the 3rd-party provider as described above) use the Change password form to set a password before trying to remove the connection.
  2. In your OpenStreetMap account (https://www.openstreetmap.org/account), go to OAuth 2 Authorizations and then click Revoke Access for the OldInsuranceMaps.net entry.