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[Etienne]

On 9/20/06, Tom Carden <tom at tom-carden.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.


The current RSS feed only gets the 40 most recent edits which means that if
there were 50 edits since the last time you checked then you will miss some
- still we should build something useful based on this feed and then try to
get this hole fixed.

Etienne

Tom.
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