Changeset list getting clobbered by MapRoulette...

[Alex Barth]

Fwiw, just fixing this single issue would make the history tab actually usable. As noted here on the thread, it's an expensive computational problem though.

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On Nov 8, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org> wrote:

> Hi Martijn - 
> 
> Pawel's got it exactly right. Zoom to your hood, then view history (or, say, anything around the Red Iguana). Then, scan through the changeset link and see how many changsets highlight the entire map view area. Now, try to find the changes from those changesets that are actually in the map view area.
> 
> It's not really a MapRoulette issue, as MR is finding and fixing lots of good stuff. But! If MR users aren't keeping their changesets small (e.g. 1 change per changeset), the BB's for their changes can become very big very quickly as they bounce around the country.
> 
> Thanks, Jeff
> 
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Paweł Paprota <ppawel at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 11/08/2012 05:11 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> I'm curious - what are actual changes? The MapRoulette changesets
> contain 'actual changes' as far as I am concerned, so how would that
> filter help this situation?
> 
> 
> Well, actual changes are... actual changes :-)
> 
> I mean, when the wheelmap.org bot edits something I usually get its changesets in the history view for my home location. 99.9999% of the time it's irrelevant since it did not change anything in my area.
> 
> However, if that same bot would happen to actually change something in my area (like mark some shop as wheelchair accessible or something) then I would like to see that changeset.
> 
> Same goes for the MapRoulette-related changesets which (due to the nature of the tool) can have huge bounding boxes.
> 
> 
> Paweł
> 
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