[OSM-talk] No Changeset Comments from iD

Richard Z. ricoz.osm at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 10:02:48 UTC 2014


On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 10:53:09PM -0800, Clifford Snow wrote:
> Why do I see so many new mappers make edits without a commit comment? Is it
> because iD doesn't prompt for a commit message? iD issue 1488 is open but
> not acted upon. I wonder why. Is it because the developers don't think
> commit comments are needed?

another problem that makes the history (from the map page) almost useless 
is that about 2/3 of all changesets indicate a very large change area box. 
Seems like most wheelmap.org edits change the whole planet at once.

Somehow the locality of changesets should be encouraged as well.

Richard



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