On 12/6/20 9:19 pm, Colin Smale wrote:

On 2020-06-12 13:00, Frederik Ramm wrote:

Hi,

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.
Something like "you have unsaved edits more than 500km away from where
you are editing at the moment, please upload those before you continue"
or so.

World-spanning changesets are a constant source of irritation, and very
rarely intentional.
But sometimes they are intentional, so they should not be prevented entirely, but possibly just challenged. Admin boundaries may need to be exempted? I am not sure how the bounding box for the changeset is calculated at present, but for these purposes it should possibly be limited to the nodes that have changed, and not automatically expanded to the entire way or relation that the change impacts. Moving one node on a country boundary should not classify the changeset as covering the whole country.


Moving that node may be intentional for a change on a feature that is not part of a admin boundary, never the less that node is part of the admin boundary and moving it may cause an error on the admin boundary. The similar for routes and possibly other large features.


I am all for a warning.
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