On Saturday, July 31, 2010 12:55:28 pm Ed Avis wrote: > >For casual editing, I'm not sure what I could put in that would be useful. > >Often I start off adding some street numbers I've collected, and then > >trace those houses from nearmap, and then start tracing a creek, and then > >start doing something when that ends. When I set the changeset comment, I > >don't know exactly what I'll be fixing up - I know the location, but you > >can get that from the changeset anyway without any comment. > > Wouldn't it make more sense for changeset comments to be set when closing, > or at least be changeable afterwards (as, for example, log messages in > version control systems)? > > The editor I use, Merkaartor, creates a new changeset every time you press > the Upload button, and prompts then for the comment. This means that I do > often upload a single task (such as a single mapping trip) in several > changesets 'part one', 'part two' etc, but that doesn't seem a bad thing.
josm will not upload a changeset if the comments field is blank - but it prefills the comment field with the last comment, which is worse than blank. At the same time mercurial and subversion from the command line will not permit a push/commit without a comment - this has kept me 'honest' - if josm did not prefill, it would be ideal. Given of course the fact that most people would like to be 'good' and make meaningful comments, but often forget to do this. -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
