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

[Liz]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Ed Avis wrote:
> Liz <edodd <at> billiau.net> writes:
> >so how do *you* summarise adding POIs and side streets and putting in
> >maxspeed along a hundred km of highway?
> >
> >because i just put in the name of where i have been, that's all.
> 
> I'd also mention how I found the data - spotted from the car window as I
> drove past, or painstakingly surveyed on foot?  That can help someone else
> if they need to verify the exact position of some post box to the nearest
> metre, or whatever.
> 
> So I would say 'POIs from car window driving through X' or 'mapping trip on
> foot to X'.
> 
> (You could instead tag source=survey;survey=foot or something equally
> Byzantine on every single object, but nobody is pedantic enough to do
> that.  So a short note in plain English on the changeset helps.)

So are you all now putting examples on the wiki about changeset comments?
To the humble mapper they would have just arrived. Some editing programmes 
prefill the changeset comment. One (which I have not tried) apparently does 
not allow any comment. 
If freeform text is what you want, could you file bug reports on the editors 
that don't make that obvious?