We badly need this : Over at legal talk it has emerged that someone is suspected of illegal copying. Similarly and incompetent user near me made many mistakes and I could only find all his changes by grepping the planet. And if they delete stuff, grepping won't help.
Even if we just have 1 html log file per user and the activity is appended to it. I can live with the 'stalking' aspect. On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Dan Karran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Has anybody done any work to date on condensing a user's changes (as > derived from planet.osm diffs) into friendly statements such as: > > - John Doe has added a node at 51.023, -0.012 > - John Doe has edited 5 ways near 51.023, -0.012 > - John Doe has edited the highway 'Whitehall' near London > - John Doe has added 6 pubs near Elephant & Castle > - John Doe has added lots of points of interest near Southwark > - etc. > > This would be useful for the user profile pages and for feeds of user > activity that could tie nicely into activity stream type services that > could help promote the project to a wider audience (assuming they > generalised changes nicely enough and didn't overload with > information). Tieing it into the concept of changesets may help reduce > the amount of information, and allow the user to summarise it > themself. > > In its simplest form (e.g. the first one), it wouldn't be too > difficult to pull the data from the planet diffs, but beyond that I > suspect it would require quite some processing, simplification, > reverse geocoding, etc. to get it into a nice form. Just wondering if > anyone has looked into doing this sort of thing at all yet? > > > Cheers, > Dan > > -- > Dan Karran > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.dankarran.com > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
