[OSM-talk] watching areas/places like wikipedia for changes

[Chris Hill]

ヴィカス ヤダワ (vikas yadav) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to be notified by email when someone changes something 
> in an area or a region?
> In wikipedia, we can be notified when someone changes the pages we 
> "watch".
>
> I have been working around the capital region in India and there are 
> too few active surveyors.
> Recently there has been some traffic of hello world surveyors who are 
> probably experimenting and therefore sometimes spoiling some of the map.
> Like now two local streets have their road name abbreviation in the 
> ref property.
> Can I get notified when changes happen within a rectangle or something?
>
> Thanks,
> Vikas
The OSM Mapper product from ITO World ( http://www.itoworld.com ) allows 
you to monitor changes in an area. It is free to subscribe to. It 
doesn't monitor changes to nodes and can take a day or two to catch up. 
Their links to OSM information pages (user profile, map, object history) 
work well. You can get the changes to an area reported to your favourite 
RSS reader.

Cheers,
Chris