[OSM-talk] Mechanical edits

[Richard Z.]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 05:12:24PM +0200, Michael Reichert wrote:

> A large bounding box of a changeset is not a proof that the edit is
> mechanical. There are also users at OSM who first edit an object in
> Europe and afterwards in America before they upload their changes. (This
> usually happens if the user uses JOSM oder Potlatch 2) On the other
> hand, it is possible that a users who performs a mechanical edit uploads
> his changes in small chunks, each having a small bounding box (few
> square kilometers).

true, nevertheless small bounding boxes should be strongly encouraged
by any means to make history viewing somewhat more useful.

The current trend that someone makes changes involving a few points and 
tags with a bounding box covering the larger part of the worlds is very
unfortunate.

Richard