[OSM-talk] Community Edit Monitoring vs Worldwide BOT Coverage in Changesets

[Ilya Zverev]

Pierre Béland wrote:
> The changesets listed were reduced by half when providing the url 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets?bbox=-73.6318%2C45.409%2C-73.444%2C45.4946 
> with http://positron96.appspot.com/osmfilter.html.

> This solution would effectively eliminate an important amount of 
> changesets from the History Report if it was adopted.

>Therefore, this solution does not cover all the situations. When a 
> worldwide changeset covers partly a local area, it is quite uneasy to 
> detect >wich objects were modified in this local area. Especially when 
> the changeset  affects hundreds of objects.

Try 
http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/scripts/rss.php?bbox=-73.6318%2C45.409%2C-73.444%2C45.4946

Alas, it will not show changesets that modified only ways or relations 
in the area, but haven't touched any of the nodes. You need to use OWL 
(which is offline at the moment) to have that.


IZ