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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Steve Bennett wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"> 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.<br>
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For new users, it's similar to Martin, although via the map rather
than the RSS feed.<br>
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For me it's essentially: <br>
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href="http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/newestosm.php?zoom=9&lat=53.15754&lon=-1.58752&layers=0B0TFT">http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/newestosm.php?zoom=9&lat=53.15754&lon=-1.58752&layers=0B0TFT</a><br>
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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).<br>
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I tend to follow <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SomeoneElse/new_mapper_messages">this</a>
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).<br>
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For actually seeing when "X has edited in Y" I use the usual tools
such as "WhoDidIt" and ITO World's "OSM Mapper" (see <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quality_assurance">here</a>),
and also a bit of java to help determine when large-scale edits
actually affect me, which I've stuck here:<br>
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<a
href="https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/Changeset1/blob/master/src/Changeset1.java">https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/Changeset1/blob/master/src/Changeset1.java</a><br>
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That also looks for way deletions and versions of ways (at some
point in the changeset - not necessarily at the end) without tags.<br>
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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.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Andy<br>
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