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

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Sat Jul 31 10:21:29 BST 2010


On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Liz wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> >     we've had the changeset feature for quite a while now and I believe
> > 
> > it is very helpful in a number of ways.
> 
> I thought I'd have a look at the documentation provided for the
> documentation called "changeset comment"
> 
> The documentation I found was at
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:comment
> and
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Changesets
> 
> and these give a completely different slant on the changeset comment.
> They discuss them being optional and note that anything mandatory annoys
> some mappers who will retaliate with garbage comments.
> 
> Thanks to the persons who pointed out changeset comments I know realise
> that I am quite free to write anything or nothing useful.
> Yes I can see their potential use, however would the other persons in this
> thread who are dogmatic about their use read the existing documentation on
> the documentation.
> 

The stuff I read changed within hours.
Of course you can read the wiki history to see what it did say at the time  
wrote the email.




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