[OSM-talk] Think before you bot

[Andrew Harvey]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Morten Kjeldgaard <mok at bioxray.dk> wrote:
> Another issue is that bots tend to change tags in the entire planet in one
> huge changeset, which means that history feeds are polluted. It is quite
> easy to reprogram the bot so it makes edits locally, i.e. in a primary area
> subdivision. This would also enable local mappers to verify and deal with
> changes -- possibly revert changesets -- in their area.

Yes local changeset feeds are getting polluted. I would rather though
the feeds (at least optionally) only include changesets which either,
 * modify a node that falls inside the feed bbox, or
 * modify a way or relation that itself has nodes that fall inside the
feed bbox.

The feeds I'm talking about are these ones,
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets/feed?bbox=...

I'm not sure what actually happens but it looks like if the feed bbox
overlaps with the changeset bbox, then the changset is added to the
feed.