Hi,
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:51:23AM +0100, Shaun McDonald wrote:
>> a few of us like to use a twitter search for "openstreetmap" to see
>> what humans are saying but recently pretty much all of the tweets we
>> receive for this search are from these bots.
>>
>> Would it be possible to reduce the level of spam - one example could
>> be for the bots to use the shorturl (osm.org) or other short url
>> service instead of the full openstreetmap.org url?
>>
>
> +1
>
> My current search is openstreetmap OR #osm, and it is really annoying to
> see all these uninsteresting twitters.
Sorry, didn't think about that. I've changed the bot to use
osm.org, my bots will use that right away, I hope the other
bot owners will update as well.
> There currently isn't a shortlink for the browse pages. Instead you'll
> need to use a third party service.
Hmmm, www.osm.org/browse/changeset/$id seems to work fine for me.
I already use tweak.tk if the tweet is too long, but I like it better
to see the real URL (see the tr.im disaster) if possible.
For the search, -changeset works fine as well (because I guess users
will typically not tweet about changesets).
> Personally I wouldn't want every edit in an area, just a daily or hourly
> summary of the number of changes.
I was thinking about that as well, I could make it an option. I guess
it would be interesting to see and compare different countries that way
as well.
I'll probably need to do this via the planet.osm diffs, though, I guess,
because it would be a waste to download all the changesets via the API
just to get the number of them.
Using the planet.osm, several statistics bots would be possible as well,
like number of roads added, number of cafés, bus stops, etc.
Cheers,
Alex
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