On 12.06.20 13:00, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I wonder if it would be feasible or desirable for editors to warn users > if they are at risk of creating country/world-spanning changesets.
It would certainly be a improvement for day-to-day work. The root of the issue, though, is that bounding boxes are a poor basis to determine whether a changeset is of interest to a mapper watching a particular region. If a changeset contains a change in France and one in Poland, then a mapper observing Germany should really just not be alerted to that changeset in the first place, and it should be possible for a mapper in Poland to view only the subset of the changes that affect their own country. IMO, an ideal changeset represents one logical unit of work. It shouldn't contain multiple unrelated changes, but at the same time, related changes should not be split across different changesets. Right now we're intentionally doing the latter to work around the limitations in our tools, and I understand and support that, but I hope this view of "large bbox = bad" doesn't get too firmly entrenched. Let's keep in mind that it's essentially a workaround for missing software features, that the proper fix is to improve the software, and that we should drop this rule once the reasons for it no longer exist. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
