Hi, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > Getting RSS/Atom feeds for these seems to be the logical next step. (I > prefer Atom 1.0 + GeoRSS extension instead of RSS 2.0, by the way.) I assume > that it'd be *extremely* easy to do this: just reformat the current > changeset list page's output.
Yes, but as you have perhaps seen, this is sub-optimal in that it gives you many false positives. The bounding box stored with a changeset is a quick indicator about the extents of changes but not so suitable for alerting people or monitoring an area because if someone makes an edit in Madrid and one in Moscow then basically everyone who monitors some place in Europe will have that change on his radar. A proper monitoring function has to use the changeset bbox as an index only and then check whether the changeset *really* contains something in the area of interest to the subscriber. This is more expensive in terms of CPU power and I'm not sure if we want to burden the API with it. It could be done externally if changesets are distributed as OSM diffs are today. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
