On 19/11/2015 11:11 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
I would like to draw everyone's attention to a long-standing
community recommendation:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_changeset_comments
It explains why you should use sensible changeset comments that describe
what you (think you) have been doing.
I don't know exactly who encourages this, but I am seeing lots of
changesets with comments like this:
#MissingMaps #hotosm-project-12345 Lubumbashi, Congo (DRC) #100mapathons
#OSMGeoWeek
This is *not* useful. First of all, we're not Twitter; we don't evaluate
these hashtags. I don't know if there are some downstream services that
do, but if so, please switch to using a secondary tag (remember,
changesets, like other OSM objects, can have any number of tags).
As a reader of the edit history of a place, I am interested in someone
writing that they have traced buildings or drawn roads or done whatever.
I'm not so much interested in (what I perceive as) vanity hashtags, they
don't help me understand what the person did.
I mean look at this:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/history#map=6/8.418/43.923
It's really a caricature of what changeset comments were meant to be.
Can it be fixed somehow, or have we permanently moved from changeset
comments being aimed at your fellow human mappers to changeset comments
being auto-generated for consumption by some software that makes sense
of them?
Bye
Frederik
My changeset comments usually:
Start with the 'where' - country state and city/town ... if I range over
some continents then I leave this out!
'What I did.' This could be 'housekeeping' - where I 'fix' validation
errors and warnings. I now try to keep the 'housekeeping' as a separate
chengeset from other things. General things like 'added sports details',
'added road names' etc.
These things can be of use to me - keeping track of where I have been
and what I did in general. Sometimes I miss all the things I did ... but
I get most of them. Sometimes I miss changing the changeset comments!
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I think the addition of the 'where' is usefull. So I 'like' that bit of
the HOT changeset comment. But I too would like the human operator to
add some detail.
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