[OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

[Nicolás Alvarez]

> El 19 nov 2015, a las 07:16, Ben Abelshausen <ben.abelshausen at gmail.com> escribió:
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> These changesets are way more useful than most.
> 
> You can go the tasking manager and see exactly what the goal of the mapping activity was, who is the admin that created the task and who validates, what mappers contributed and so on.
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> That doesn't mean things couldn't be better. Maybe moving some information to the changeset tags may be a solution, the id of the task for example, and the tile or some description in the comment.

That is very useful information to have **in addition** to a normal changeset comment. 

Did you trace roads from imagery, or improve the geometry of an existing road and fix the highway= classification as a tile validation step? Did you add houses and schools? Is there anything you added where you aren't confident you interpreted the satellite imagery right, and someone doing validation should pay special attention to?

Here is one of mine from a HOT task: "Finish tracing road, add classification to it and some others nearby, trace storage tanks."

In fact, while I usually write descriptive changeset comments, I just took a look at my change history and came out thinking I should be (and should have been) even *more* verbose. Maybe it's because lately I have been working more on software code, where you can sometimes see a three-paragraph commit message explaining a 2-line code change...

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Nicolás