[OSM-talk] Any chance of getting RSS/Atom feeds for those changeset/history pages?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> Getting RSS/Atom feeds for these seems to be the logical next step. (I
> prefer Atom 1.0 + GeoRSS extension instead of RSS 2.0, by the way.) I assume
> that it'd be *extremely* easy to do this: just reformat the current
> changeset list page's output.

Yes, but as you have perhaps seen, this is sub-optimal in that it gives 
you many false positives.

The bounding box stored with a changeset is a quick indicator about the 
extents of changes but not so suitable for alerting people or monitoring 
an area because if someone makes an edit in Madrid and one in Moscow 
then basically everyone who monitors some place in Europe will have that 
change on his radar.

A proper monitoring function has to use the changeset bbox as an index 
only and then check whether the changeset *really* contains something in 
the area of interest to the subscriber. This is more expensive in terms 
of CPU power and I'm not sure if we want to burden the API with it. It 
could be done externally if changesets are distributed as OSM diffs are 
today.

Bye
Frederik

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