[OSM-talk] New editors

[Toby Murray]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 17:28 +0000, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote:
>> It would be _super_ good if we had some tool that would flag and notify some advanced active mapper in a given area of any changesets that delete more than 2 features. .. I'd be totally up for checking any and all changesets in Haiti that delete _anything_.
>>
>> This is an increasing problem and especially where there's limited number of advanced mappers _actively_
>> monitoring and fixing an area this issue can become a killer for the map in that area.
>>
>> .. And I would include merges into this deletion category. (The Airport Road of PaP is still a
>> "2km bridge" after a misguided edit w/ a merge perhaps 2wks ago -- haven't had the time to fix
>> that and neither has anyone else, it seems..)
>>
>> Cheers from sunny Hispanola -- the island of one soon sinking capital city (sinking from The Map,
>> that is),
>> -Jaakko
> Is there an easy means to spot changes in a particular area?
>
> I did have an rss feed on from http://osm-changepipe.s3.amazonaws.com
> but that stopped updating at the beginning of March.
>
> The main osm website shows changes in an area, but includes global type
> edits so sometimes spotting changes that affect the area can be like
> looking for a needle in a haystack.

I use OWL:
http://matt.dev.openstreetmap.org/owl_viewer/

Unfortunately it is 2 weeks behind. I know there is an effort to get
it a better server to run on. It's been talked about for a while. Not
sure how close that is to getting done.

Toby