On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> wrote:
>
> Only the 'why'
> not the 'what' needs to be stated. That normally shouldn't be more than
> one
> sentence.
>
>
You are two, with David Earl saying that. But that's a big difference with
what Frederik and others are saying. They want a summary, a 'what' and
'why', not just a 'why'.
Again, most of the 'what' could be summarized automically ("20 POI's added",
"2 ways displaced", "5 restrictions added", etc) and is far better than
reading comments. I have seen so many nice comments from newcomers where
changesets contained so many mistakes...
About the 'why', I can already tell you :
- if someone displaces 20 nodes, the 'why' is because this person things
that his source is more accurate than the previous contribution. The 'why'
is a more accurate source.
- if someone adds 100 buildings in an empty area, it's because this person
found a source for those buildings.
- if someone renames a pub or a restaurant, it's because this person thinks
that his knowledge is more recent than the previous contribution
(source=survey or personnal knowledge)
About the required comment in JOSM, I think that JOSM is the only editor
doing this. Remember that I'm the one who first complained about this
feature on this list and after a long discussion the compromise was to
repeat the previous comment (which is good enough for me). The proposal to
make a pop-up explaining comments importance as suggested by Frederik today
was also raised at that discussion but nothing was made since then.
Pieren
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