[Talk-TW] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Who Did It?

[李昕迪 Lee, Sin-di]

追蹤的新方法


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From: Ilya Zverev <zverik at textual.ru>
Date: 2012/9/29
Subject: [OSM-talk] Who Did It?
To: Talk <talk at openstreetmap.org>


Hi!

For a long time now, there has been no tool to properly monitor an
area. Essentially the only way of doing it is to filter changeset
history by bbox (thanks to Pavel for his RSS filter btw). OWL has been
turned off, ITO-like visualizations are pretty but unuseful. The
simple question "who has deleted my road?" turned out to be very hard
to answer.

But there has been a simple solution, that I'm amazed no one has come
to before. To cut long story short, I present to you the service to
answer the frequently asked question: WHO DID IT?

http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/

It basically downloads hourly replication diffs and stores information
on affected 0.01-degree tiles, along with extra information, like user
name or a number of modified objects. Then it is possible to do some
analysis of that data, to rid users of doing it themselves: which
changesets should they pay most attention to, where was anything
deleted, and which tiles have only got new data.

Obviously this service relies only on nodes: other objects do not have
spatial information on them in diffs; querying the server every time
is expensive, and keeping minutely planet database is no less costly.
I've preloaded WHODIDIT with the data since 1st of July, and it's only
one gigabyte per three months of changes (half of which are indices).
Yes, you can see what redaction bot has touched.

Also it allows to make RSS feed similar to OWL's. I think everything
is pretty straightforward, and there is an instruction picture:

http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/wdi_guide.gif

The source is licensed WTFPL, and it should be very easy to set up,
for example, a mirror or a regional version of this service. It's
entirely in Perl/PHP/MySQL. Check it at
https://github.com/Zverik/whodidit

Oh, and if you see no tiles, try zooming in, levels 12-13 should have
everything. I've not yet figured how to pass error messages to the
front-end, so there is no helpful message.

Thanks,
IZ

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