<div dir="ltr">Hello,<br><br>I also agree with the necessity to have more informations/API/alerts about user's activity to monitor the quality/mistakes and I believe to be more credible to the outside world.<br><br>I use OSM Mapper and OSM Aware and "OSMxapi/node RSS feed" but for me it's not sufficent.<br>
<br>What I really need is an alert (RSS, mail or other...) when the elements (ways, nodes, areas) I've created or contributed to are modified.<br><br>Why I think it is important?<br><br>Because the elements I've contributed to are the one I know, I've seen them with my eyes, otherwise I wouldn't have mapped them.<br>
But I don't necesseraly know all the elements (ways, nodes...) 'around' them and I don't have time to check all of them in a region to see if I've contributed to it (have some knowledge about them), or not.<br>
<br>If I had such an automatic alert (on my contributions) I could easily check and be in one of the three situation:<br><br>1) I know the addition/modification is right (cool to see the community effort, encourages me to map more, we are not alone :) )<br>
2) I don't know if the addition is right but it's possible (maybe I could double check one day eventually)<br>3) I sure know it is a mistake (this motorway i take eveyday is not a river...). I must do something about it now (contact the mapper and correct the mistake)<br>
<br>Right now i can randomly see some annoying unintentional mistakes made on my contributions. Each time I spot one I ask myself how many more I didn't see, these thougts don't encourage me. We know we are mapping facts (geographical informations), not doing art. We obvisoulsy should do eveything we can to ensure the facts are and stay right or improve in detail. Otherwise that doesn't fully satisfy me and I prefered to reduce my mapping contributions to OSM (and contribute more to other projects in the meantime).<br>
<br>I'm sure OSM will find a way. I'm still utterly amazed at what OSM achieved (especially when you understand how much more technically complex it is than a simple "wikipedia").<br>But I believe improvements in this field should be a priority and should happen better sooner than latter. The longer OSM waits, the more mistakes will accumulate, the more people will be discourage, the less credible the quality of the database will be to the external world.<br>
<br>My 2 cents (for what it's worth).<br>francois<br><br>PS:<br>When I've developed OSMaware I quickly tried to do such an RSS feed (as decribed above) but I didn't find an easy way to do it 'reasonnably' without probing the history of all the elements... So I gave-up on this.<br>
I also added it as feature request on the OSM Mapper wiki page but i didn't see any answer there either.<br>I'm having a quick look at the "OSM Protocol Version 0.6" draft, maybe the "Querying by user" for change sets will help in the futur (if it is what I imagine).<br>
<br>---<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Ian Dees <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Nic Roets <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nroets@gmail.com" target="_blank">nroets@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Ian Dees <<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com" target="_blank">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> How about an activity feed for a certain bounding box area? I think this, in<br>
> combination with the user-specific activity log, would be very useful.<br>
<br>
</div>There's a simple trick to achieve this : XOR or subtractive rendering.<br>
Relatively simple to implement with slippy map tiles and desktop<br>
renderers.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div>It sounds like there's interest in an RSS feed or some other, non-graphical method of communicating that information. The graphical approach on a map is definitely neat, but I think an RSS feed or e-mail alert would be even more useful.<br>
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