On 7 May 2011 16:18, Tom Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't see the point of distinguishing "big" edits because people don't > really care - the only thing they really case about is whether the edit > touches a given area. Big is simply a (poor) proxy for that.
You've touched on something here that I've been thinking about. One way of restating our goal in highlighting certain changes, either in the overall history or in the changesets of an individual mapper, is: It would be nice to see highlighted, or be able to filter based on, changesets that are "interesting" to you. If we can once define one or more definition of "interesting" it would be possible to flag or filter accordingly. Some possible definitions of "interesting": * Is within a certain radius of a certain location, very likely the current user's set home location. To support this, a user profile would allow setting of the radius of interest according to how much that mapper gets around. * Is within a certain radius (and this might be a fixed distance for all mappers) of something the current mapper mapped. * Is inside a certain bbox which the mapper would get to define in his profile. A bit like the radius mentioned above, but maybe more useful. In this context a "big" edit might still be "interesting" - but not if it simply encompasses an area of interest. It would probably have to include edits that were themselves inside the area of interest. That seems hard, though. Dermot -- -------------------------------------- Igaühel on siin oma laul ja ma oma ei leiagi üles _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
