[OSM-talk] What happened to the bounding boxes in the history?

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 5/13/2011 11:59 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 13/05/11 16:34, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/history?bbox=-82.063%2C28.21%2C-80.887%2C28.784
>>
>> There's no way to tell, going down the list, which ones are huge
>> changesets that cover the entire world and which ones are confined to
>> this area.
>
> Yes there is, though it's not quite working as well as it was supposed
> to at the moment.
>
> Put your mouse over an entry in the list and the area it cover will be
> highlighted on the map. If it spans the whole area then the whole map is
> supposed to be highlighted but that often doesn't seem to work at the
> moment - the lack of any box means it spans the whole area though.

In addition to not working, this is also a lot slower than the old 
method of looking down the list for (big) or whatever it showed.