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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Tobias Knerr wrote:
> I believe that people will only provide truly useful changeset comments
> if they do so voluntarily. 

But at least one person in this thread has said something along the 
lines "oh I didn't know these were so important actually". *That* is 
surely something that could have been avoided by an editor informing 
them accordingly.

> For example, getting rid of those "big" edits from the history on
> osm.org would improve the usefulness, and thus acceptance, of changeset
> comments far more than any mailing list thread could.

I hear that this is in the works. - However I'd still advocate not 
creating "big" edits in the first place. When I modified 170 million 
nodes in the US last year, I made sure to group them at least by county 
if not smaller clusters, to avoid having thousands of changesets 
spanning the whole US.

Bye
Frederik

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