[OSM-talk] Changeset history - hide 'big' edits?

[Matt Amos]

2009/6/27 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>:
> El Sábado, 27 de Junio de 2009, Dirk-Lüder Kreie escribió:
>> Where big edit = bbox is larger what the API would allow in a map call?
>> +1
>
> +1
>
> Would it be possible for the API* (or the editors) to split up big changesets
> in bboxes that size?

maybe instead of (or as well as) changesets having bboxes they could
have a "footprint" - a set of touched quadtiles or something. this
would be much faster to query, i guess.

as an experiment, this could already be done by a 3rd party site
looking at the diff stream, so there's no real need to do it on the
main server(s) just yet.

on the other hand, the editors could easily do it themselves :-)

cheers,

matt