[OSM-dev] A new take on the "mutable" idea

[Erik Johansson]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Russ Nelson<russ at cloudmade.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 19, 2009, at 6:49 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>>  or alternatively make it easy to spot whether such data may
>> have been changed by accident.
>
> There are a lot of reasons to have this facility.  It matches in
> concept with Wikipedia's "watchlist".

Osmxapi gives you watch lists, just tag a couple of node, way or
relations with watch:mrRuzzy=immutable_data and you can watch it in
xapi:

http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/watch/mrRuzzy/immutable_data
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmxapi#RSS_Feed


But regarding what Frederik says. Communicating your desires to/onto
other OSM users has always been the hardest part of OSM.

If you had that live feed of OSM data changes then you could setup
your own server that did rollbacks on all immutable data violation
edits. But: Kind of sucks  to have your data rolledback without you
knowing it, even having a dialog saying "you are too stupid, don't
edit this" might be a bit sucky.


/Erik