[OSM-talk] A plea for meaning ful changeset comments

[John F. Eldredge]

I have to admit that I am bad about not bothering to enter a comment, particularly if all I have been doing is fixing the alignment of streets to better conform to the Yahoo aerial view.  I shall try to do better in the future.  Also, I sometimes mark POIs with a cell phone app, BigTinCan Mapper, that offers only a preset list of POI types, with the only user-editable attribute being the name, and no provision for entering changeset comments.

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Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] A plea for meaning ful changeset comments
From  :mailto:deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Date  :Fri Jul 30 06:35:39 America/Chicago 2010


On 30 July 2010 21:27, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> wrote:
> On Friday, July 30, 2010 04:48:03 pm Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> Don't be fooled; the small changeset comment that you enter when
>> uploading stuff will be read by many people. Done well, changeset
>> comments are tremendously helpful.
>
> helpful reminder - my problem is that I put an entry like 'fine tuning south
> Mumbai', and then for the next changeset, I forget to put anything, so it
> again goes as 'fine tuning south mumbai' when it is actually concerning a place
> hundreds of kilometers away.

+1

I've been caught several times forgetting to change the changeset
comment and so it ends up worst than any generic comment since it then
is misleading as to what happened.

Maybe we just need better tools to summerise changes made, rather than
trying to get something meaningful by way of the comment field...

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