[OSM-dev] A better way to watch nodes and ways?

[Tom Hughes]

On 12/08/09 18:09, Gioele wrote:

> OpenStreetMaps has two different mechanism, both with some issues. First,
> the watch:user=1 tag. The feeds produced by the Xapi using the watch tag
> would be interesting but they don't seem to work (at least in the past
> hours) and they expose very little information. Moreover, all those tags
> pollute the database. Second, OSMMapper. OSMMapper is an interesting project
> but it is less structured than one would hope. It is based on areas so it is
> impossible for a user to follow just a street or certain nodes (f.e.
> attractions) in a crowded area. The number of commits would be just too
> high. Also, it is graphical-only tool and this reduces the ability to
> integrate it in other projects: f.e. JOSM could not use that information to
> zoom to changed ways. More, it is a separate project and I think this watch-
> list stuff should be part of the main infrastructure.

You can also subscribe to an RSS feed of changesets for a given area or 
user on the main web site.

> PS: is there a bug tracking system for the OSM infrastructure? All I could
> find is OpenStreetBugs but it deals with errors in the map, not in the
> infrastructure.

As you were told on IRC, yes there is.

You'll find it at http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ but as bobkare said on 
IRC this proposal is nowhere near ready to go in a bug tracker.

Tom

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