[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Set bounding box size limits based on surface dimensions (Issue #4910)

[Andy Allan]

> This has lead to mapping using the OSM API for reading data being practically impossible at high latitudes in most cases.

But editing software can make multiple read requests, can't they? Like request a large area in 0.25 degree chunks?

>  in contrast to data reading this is a hard limit.

I want to emphasise here that it will only affect new user accounts, and the limit rapidly increases to be a global extent over the first few weeks of mapping. It is not a hard limit. In fact, it's the read limit that's the hard limit, since it doesn't adjust or become global-scale over time.

I appreciate that at extreme latitudes this does have an outsized effect, in theory, on brand-new mappers. But I really don't think there will be many mappers who are making widespread changes in the high polar regions as their first bit of mapping.

I'm happy to be proved wrong, so if anyone can link to some changesets that would have hit the new limits, please let us know.

Otherwise, as @tomhughes says, I think working on this is a nice-to-have, not a must-have.

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