[OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

[Tom Hughes]

On 30/11/13 17:54, James Mast wrote:

> For instance, this url [1] used to create a feed for the for following
> area -80.54,40.358,-79.526,40.779 and let me know if there were any
> changesets that in that bounding box.  Now, all I get are the last 20
> changeset in all of OSM!!!  That isn't good at all if you're trying to
> keep a watch on your home area for changes!!  There should have been a
> built in feed redirection from the old style here to the new style
> instead being broken the first time a user used the old style.
>
> And when I try to access the new history menu [2] and pull the RSS FEED
> from the site, Firefox's build in "Subscribe" feature gives me this feed
> URL [3].  The OSM site should be giving the user a "valid" feed url for
> the area you're viewing, not just the base feed.
>
> Thankfully, I've figured out what the new feed link is for my watch area
> manually and updated it in my RSS feed reader [4].

Well [1] should be redirecting to [4] and if it doesn't then that is a 
bug that should be reported.

There are some issues with the feed discovery in Firefox, mostly because 
Firefox seems to be buggy and not cope very well with the discovery URLs 
being updated on the fly.

Tom

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