Hello Pierre. I think the better way to solve this problem is to make history page show changesets that actually *affect* the area in question, not changesets that*only cover * area. There are some works in this direction, the most recent seems to be http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/ . There was OWL which is now down, but is promised to be back. Also, there is an automated filter for RSS history feeds: http://positron96.appspot.com/osmfilter.html - the service can filter out large changesets from rss feed, and give you with filtered feed. Hope it helps.
Pavel On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Pierre Béland <infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr>wrote: > The Changeset Display for an area (ie. History tab of OpenStreetMap.org) > shows all the changesets covering a local area. In this display, we often > see Worldwide BOT Changesets even if there is no modifications made to the > area,. RSS feeds are producing false alerts, and it is uneasy to find if > any changes are made to the local area. We sometimes have to go to hundreds > of modifications in the Changeset to verify if the local area is affected. > > This Worldwide coverage in Changesets limits our capacity to simply > monitor changes to the map and OSM conributors have often complain about > this. > > Automated Edits code of conduct [1] and Mechanical Edit Policy [2] wiki > pages do not talk about restricting Worldwide BOT Coverage in one > Changeset. Searching the discussion lists, I cannot find discussion / > propositions to establish rules that limit the coverage. > > I then propose to add a a rule for Automated / Mechanical Edits so that an > individual Changeset do not cover a large area. It could be for example a > rule that says no more than a 500km x 500km. > > Pierre > > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct > [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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