[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Designate regions where new accounts cannot edit or add notes (Issue #6512)

[Pablo Brasero]

pablobm left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6512)

I agree that polygon would be great, but I'm worried that implementing it could turn into a rabbit hole. There's building the UI to create the selection, and having to enable PostGIS in the process (as I understand it's not present currently).

In conversation with the DWG, an idea came up of using existing boundary relations. That would be really handy but I suspect we don't have a good way to determine if a point is within a boundary (perhaps another reason to add PostGIS after all?).

So with the above, a circle might be the simplest solution that gets us going with something useful. In some cases moderators would need to create multiple circles, but the UI could be made to define several circles as part of a single "block" which might hit a right balance of complexity vs utility.

As for those corner cases of London-Sydney-Bethlehem, etc, I think it's fine for the use case as this is not a proper user-facing feature. Having said that, perhaps this can be exploited... someone could create a changeset with vandalism in a defined area, plus an unrelated change 3000km away, thus triggering this edge case. Perhaps the focus should be in individual nodes rather than the changeset bounding box? But then we risk slowing down large edits... But! The important part here is to reduce the workload of moderators, not to come up with a perfect solution. Heuristics can be devised and impacts measured as we go on.

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