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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Matt Amos wrote:
> absolutely. if you're interested in monitoring the state borders then
> you'll be interested in a service to get emails or an RSS feed of that
> area. that way you can watch over that area and ensure it's correct.

I'm all for cool monitoring features but I'd really love people to have 
a chance to behave well *before* they get 100 e-mails by all those 
people monitoring something. I really think that having an advance 
warning would contribute to overall mapper happiness. A personal, 
individual message from mapper A to mapper B about A's supposedly bad 
edit is much worse karma than some note on an object saying "if you 
modify this, you'd better know what you're doing".

Maybe a super-cool editor could tap into the monitoring system and tell 
people "the feature you are editing is being monitored by 1,234 people" ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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