[OSM-talk] Users' activity feeds

Ian Dees ian.dees at gmail.com
Sat Aug 23 19:44:51 BST 2008


On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How about an activity feed for a certain bounding box area? I think this,
> in
> > combination with the user-specific activity log, would be very useful.
>
> There's a simple trick to achieve this : XOR or subtractive rendering.
> Relatively simple to implement with slippy map tiles and desktop
> renderers.
>

It sounds like there's interest in an RSS feed or some other, non-graphical
method of communicating that information. The graphical approach on a map is
definitely neat, but I think an RSS feed or e-mail alert would be even more
useful.
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