On 30/07/2010, at 9:52 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > For me, very frequently, the changeset just represents a random bunch > of edits I happened to be doing at one time, with not much cohesion. > There are different suburbs all in the same changeset as I flitted > about.
My editing falls into two categories, casual editing and big tasks. I think I put in reasonable comments for big tasks (my current one is uploading National Parks data). For casual editing, I'm not sure what I could put in that would be useful. Often I start off adding some street numbers I've collected, and then trace those houses from nearmap, and then start tracing a creek, and then start doing something when that ends. When I set the changeset comment, I don't know exactly what I'll be fixing up - I know the location, but you can get that from the changeset anyway without any comment. For any kind of semi-automatic or large scale things, I agree that good changeset comments shouldn't be difficult to write and would be very useful, but I'm not sure about small-scale editing when you go along with things. -- James _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
