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

[Pierre Béland]

The Changeset Display for an area (ie. History tab of OpenStreetMap.org) 
shows all the changesets covering a local area. In this display, we often see Worldwide 
BOT Changesets even if there is no modifications made to the area,. RSS feeds are producing false alerts, and it is uneasy to find if any changes are made to the local area. We sometimes have to go to hundreds of modifications in the Changeset to verify if the local area is affected.


This Worldwide coverage in Changesets limits our capacity to simply monitor changes to the map and OSM  conributors have often complain about this.


Automated Edits code of conduct [1] and Mechanical Edit Policy [2] wiki pages do not talk about restricting Worldwide BOT Coverage in one Changeset.  Searching the discussion lists, I cannot find discussion / propositions to establish rules that limit the coverage.


I then propose to add a a rule for Automated / Mechanical Edits so that an individual Changeset do not cover a large area. It could be for example a rule that says no more than a 500km x 500km.


Pierre 

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy
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