Ah, thats right, changeset comments are just tags against the changeset. I was just going to describe what I change in the changeset, this is the comment I was going to use,
"Add land parcels (cadastral boundaries) from best guess from nearmap imagery, and add street numbers and apartment block names from survey to these parcels. boundary=cadastre is something I just made up, will need to discuss the use of this further. Unable to assign the role street to the associatedStreet relations because you need to make a relation containing all the segments of the street, and how to do that is not well agreed upon (multipolygon, collected way, route?)." I feel that if I leave anything out, then someone might not be able to gather why I've done something a certain way in that changeset. Linking to somewhere on the wiki seems like a good idea, I think instead I'll just add my changeset comment as a diary entry and link to the diary entry in the changeset comment. At least this allows people to discuss a given changeset further (something I've wanted to be able to do myself in the past without needing to send a private message). Thanks. On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Jochen Topf <joc...@remote.org> wrote: > All tags in the OSM database are currently limited to 255 characters. Having > a (comparably low) limit makes life easier for everybody using the data. > > What is it that you want to store in the changeset that is so long? Can you > maybe put this extra information on a wiki page and just add a link to the > changeset or something like it? > > Jochen > -- > Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
