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

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/4/22 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>:
> El Miércoles, 22 de Abril de 2009, Frederik Ramm escribió:
>> 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.
>
> Maybe we could calculate the convex hull of the changeset and use that with
> some postgis magic. It should be quicker than comparing all the elements in
> the changeset to the bbox, and would not produce so many false positives.

This wouldn't help so much in the case of the small edit in Moscow and
another one in Madrid, all the places in between would still be
covered.  My idea would be: include in the feed edits that contain a
node in the user's chosen bbox, or a way containing such a node or
relation containing such ways or nodes.

But in the lack of simple way to implement that, even a feed with
"edits that have a corner of the changeset's bbox inside user's chosen
bbox" might be useful.  But this, too, can be easily done as an
external service.

Cheers