[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)

Is it realistic to enable PostGIS in the DB? Asking from complete ignorance: no idea of what the implications are on the operations side, etc. Perhaps @tomhughes or @firefishy have opinions on this?

If that's feasible in the short term, basing the block on an existing boundary would sound very promising. To avoid the issue of vandalised boundaries, a specific, historic version of the boundary could be chosen.

If that wasn't feasible in the short term, would it be practical so start with the same solution used to identify nearby users? From my ignorance on the topic of GIS, I'm guessing that's probably not very scalable, but might just do it initially, as better solutions are implemented iteratively and with practical knowledge of the implications.

> we might still want to store the intersection of those circles?

I don't understand: what's special about the intersection of the circles? My thinking is: feature is created, we iterate through all the circles to find if something falls within. Any intersections will be checked multiple times, but that shouldn't (?) be a big deal.

Regarding the UI, is there any prior art on an interface to define polygons, that can be used in the admin section? Not sure we want to instantiate a full-blown iD here... or do we?

> I meant more that two innocent changes might get blocked

This is going to be part of the tradeoffs that the DWG will have to consider when blocking regions. In any case, from my ignorance I want to think that it won't be a big deal: heuristics can improve, it only affects new/anonymous accounts, the DWG will keep an eye, it's not a "proper" user-facing feature.

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