[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - last_checked

[John Smith]

2009/9/21 Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org>:
> On 16/09/09 13:09, John Smith wrote:
>> This came up before and this should probably be stored in the
>> changeset meta information, not directly against elements within the
>> changeset.
>
> Surely changesets should only be created when something changes. What if
> I mapped a bus route in 2009-03-02, I set the last_checked to that. Then
> this month I check the same bus route, and see that it hasn't been
> changed. I should edit that relation and set the last_checked to
> 2009-09-21. This is easy to do if last_checked is on the relation. But
> how could I do it on the changeset?

With the latest JOSM you can set arbitary tags on changesets, then you
just add that tag on future changesets if you update it etc.