On 02/15/2013 05:21 PM, the Old Topo Depot wrote:
At present, tools such as MapRoulette (maproulette.org) rely on users to
add a string to changeset comment to assist tracking editing activities
associated with said tool.
It would be useful and convenient to allow external tools to specify a
changeset string fragment (suffix, for example) as part of the remote
control command sent to JOSM when the editing activity is triggered. I am
soliciting feedback from the JOSM dev community on this matter, and will
implement agreed upon changes when we arrive at a consensus.
While I am aware that JOSM caches changeset strings, it is also possible
for a use to employ several tools during an extended editing session, say
MapRoulette and OSMI, and users are currently burdened with properly
selecting a comment.
Best and Thanks in Advance for your comments,
Can you give an example, how such an auto-generated changeset comment
would look like? The users will probable make multiple edits and upload
them all in one go. As Dirk pointed out, in addition to comment=*,
created_by=* and source=*, you can add custom tags to the changeset. If
it's just for bookkeeping, you can include an additional tag like
maproulette:id=*, this is no problem.
In general I'm not opposed to assisting the user with choosing a good
comment. If a changest comment has already been selected in a previous
upload and the changeset is still open, we should probably not overwrite it.
Paul
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