[OSM-talk] digg

[Tom Carden]

On 20/09/06, Etienne <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/20/06, Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> >
> > One thing I did notice was vandalism.  Is there any mechanism of
> > reverting changes done by a malicious person?
>
>
> Where?  And how did you notice it?
>
> I stumbled across a couple of edits in the Weybridge area that were clearly
> the result of someone trying to make the applet do something.  I think we
> are getting close to the point where we really need to be able to monitor
> edits.
>

I've thought that for a long time.  IMO the addition of ways and tags
and things, though responsible for some lovely maps, should have come
after the simple node/segment model was capable of being monitored and
managed by any user.  Adding in wiki-style rollback to the data model
and interface will be a lot harder now, but it's obviously still
essential.

> Something simple like a query that would list any changes by someone else to
> nodes/segments/ways that I originally created or have touched would be a
> start.  This would be a crude equivalent to the "watch this page" function
> on a wiki.  Alternatively a "watch this tile" function would be another way
> of doing it.

I thought we had RSS for edits, by bounding box?  If you don't use RSS
there are RSS to email gateways around, I'm pretty sure.

Tom.