[OSM-dev] New Program: Changemonger

[Paweł Paprota]

Hi Serge,

We've been e-mailing about this project in private in the context of the
activity stream stuff that's slowly being developed for osm.org - I
think it would be perfect to have these descriptions in the stream,
certainly better than "user X entered changeset XYZ" or anything else I
can come up on my own during activity stream development.

I will sink my teeth into your project as soon as I can and we can
continue the discussion.

For now, happy birthday and good luck with the move again :)

Paweł

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012, at 16:07, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It's my birthday today and I have a tradition of giving a gifts on my
> birthday. So my birthday gift to the OSM community is Changemonger.
> 
> Changemonger makes it easier to understand what's going on in an area.
> 
> The original idea is that you can have useful notifications like this:
> 
> "emacsen added two school, deleted three roads and an untagged node in
> New York City"
> 
> Changemonger isn't quite there yet, but it's pretty darn close. Right
> now, it would give you a sentence like:
> 
> "emacsen edited three roads, two schools and an untagged node".
> 
> The core of Changemonger is a new feature system that's built to be
> very simple to use and customize. The big feature for Changemonger's
> feature system is that it supports multiple taxonomies.
> 
> A police station is a building, a municipal facility, and an emergency
> service, but buildings, municipal facilities and emergency services
> are not inter-related.
> 
> There are lots of other cool stuff being built into Changemonger,
> beyond the simple interface that's there now. I hope to showcase some
> of this functionality soon, but I know this is a project some people
> have shown an interest in, so I wanted to release something early.
> 
> This early release is fairly fragile, but it supports basic object
> matching and a first stab at a grouping algorithm. There's a lot more
> to do before it becomes stable and solid enough for production.
> 
> The code's on github, here:
> https://github.com/emacsen/changemonger
> 
> I don't want to spam the list too much about this, so if you have any
> technical questions about the code, let me know off-list by email. If
> there's interest, I'll set up a mailing list about the project and
> announce it here.
> 
> Thanks again everyone.
> 
> - Serge
> 
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