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

Pavel Melnikov positron96 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 30 17:29:00 BST 2012


Hello Pierre.

I think the better way to solve this problem is to make history page show
changesets that actually *affect* the area in question, not changesets
that*only cover
* area. There are some works in this direction, the most recent seems to be
http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/ . There was OWL which is now down,
but is promised to be back.
 Also, there is an automated filter for RSS history feeds:
http://positron96.appspot.com/osmfilter.html - the service can filter out
large changesets from rss feed, and give you with filtered feed.
Hope it helps.

Pavel

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Pierre Béland <infosbelas-gps at yahoo.fr>wrote:

> 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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