On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com> wrote:
> At this weekend's Chicago hack weekend Tom and I worked on a prototype
> that could be a viable solution for our currently broken history tab. It is
> taking a very different approach in comparison to Pawel's history tab [1]
> by not showing the entire history up front, but only latest changes to
> visible elements. I wrote up the details in a diary entry, would love to
> hear peoples thoughts on this. I think from a user story perspective this
> would work and it would be much cheaper to implement than a fast historic
> changeset browser.
>
The biggest limitation of this solution is that it will never show
changesets for objects that were deleted in the bounding box. If the
changeset happens to include still-existing objects in the bounding box,
then the changeset will be listed. But if a changeset only contains
deletions (most likely a vandal, but legitimately can be someone just
removing a few outdated POIs), then there's no way that this solution can
help you find out what happened. ("I swear I there was a restaurant here,
where did it go?")
At least the current system will show you the deletion changeset.
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