Steve Bennett wrote:
Hi,
Just wondering what tools you use to "keep an eye on" that area? I'd
love to have a better idea of what other editors are doing in my area.
For new users, it's similar to Martin, although via the map rather than
the RSS feed.
For me it's essentially:
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/newestosm.php?zoom=9&lat=53.15754&lon=-1.58752&layers=0B0TFT
but concentrating on areas that I'm familiar with, and ignoring areas
where other more local mappers keep an eye on things (e.g. the W Mids).
I tend to follow this
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SomeoneElse/new_mapper_messages> when
sending messages to new mappers (essentially give people time to figure
out how to do stuff in OSM, try and be forgiving and try and be helpful).
For actually seeing when "X has edited in Y" I use the usual tools such
as "WhoDidIt" and ITO World's "OSM Mapper" (see here
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quality_assurance>), and also a bit
of java to help determine when large-scale edits actually affect me,
which I've stuck here:
https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/Changeset1/blob/master/src/Changeset1.java
That also looks for way deletions and versions of ways (at some point in
the changeset - not necessarily at the end) without tags.
A related process takes the list of new mappers who haven't quite got
the hang of things yet and appends something to the name of items in the
Garmin maps that I create for my own use, so that if I'm near somewhere
which has, for example, a footpath that doesn't quite join a road I can
check whether it actually does or not.
Cheers,
Andy
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