[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] New Year's wish...

[Ian Dees]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> On 31/12/09 16:34, Ian Dees wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Morten Kjeldgaard <mok at bioxray.dk
>> <mailto:mok at bioxray.dk>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>    I have a small New Year's wish to the developers of the OSM website.
>>    When going to the "history" tab, it would be soooooo nice if you
>>    could optionally remove all entries marked "(big)" from the listing.
>>    These are almost always entries that cover half the planet,
>>    resulting from someone doing script-work on the entire database.
>>    What I really want to see when looking at the history tab is what is
>>    currently going on with the map within the bbox I'm currently
>>    looking at.
>>
>>    Pretty please?
>>
>>
>> Ok, this is my first ever patch on a rails project, let alone to the
>> rails_port. What do the devs think?
>>
>
> As I keep saying, filtering out big boxes is not really what people want.
> What people really want is to filter out changesets which span the specified
> area but don't change anything in it. Changesets which are large but do
> change something in the specified area are still interesting.
>
> I understand that, but I think this is a decent first step.
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