[OSM-talk] Users' activity feeds

[Nic Roets]

We badly need this : Over at legal talk it has emerged that someone is
suspected of illegal copying. Similarly and incompetent user near me
made many mistakes and I could only find all his changes by grepping
the planet. And if they delete stuff,  grepping won't help.

Even if we just have 1 html log file per user and the activity is
appended to it.

I can live with the 'stalking' aspect.

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Dan Karran <dan at karran.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Has anybody done any work to date on condensing a user's changes (as
> derived from planet.osm diffs) into friendly statements such as:
>
>  - John Doe has added a node at 51.023, -0.012
>  - John Doe has edited 5 ways near 51.023, -0.012
>  - John Doe has edited the highway 'Whitehall' near London
>  - John Doe has added 6 pubs near Elephant & Castle
>  - John Doe has added lots of points of interest near Southwark
>  - etc.
>
> This would be useful for the user profile pages and for feeds of user
> activity that could tie nicely into activity stream type services that
> could help promote the project to a wider audience (assuming they
> generalised changes nicely enough and didn't overload with
> information). Tieing it into the concept of changesets may help reduce
> the amount of information, and allow the user to summarise it
> themself.
>
> In its simplest form (e.g. the first one), it wouldn't be too
> difficult to pull the data from the planet diffs, but beyond that I
> suspect it would require quite some processing, simplification,
> reverse geocoding, etc. to get it into a nice form. Just wondering if
> anyone has looked into doing this sort of thing at all yet?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
>
> --
> Dan Karran
> dan at karran.net
> www.dankarran.com
>
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