I tested this tool and it works very well to identify new contributors. I also
added a check on Administrative Limits and Coastlines in my area. Recently, a
new contributor succeeded in deleting both administrative limits and coastlines
in his first and second Changesets. Then, somebody corrected roughly the
coastline. Not easy to repair successive edits since we dont have good tools to
repair such things. Thus, it is important to repair rapidly.
This tools is one of many that we need to go in the good direction.And more
generally, we need social tools that help to empower local communities, to
facilitate communications with mappers in the area and monitoring of the data.
There are various ways to add and improve the OSM data (ie. imports, imagery,
GPS, etc.). The question is not wich type of data we use but what is the
quality of data or work done by mappers. And the communities need to be able to
monitor, train people, manage the map of the area.
Pierre
>________________________________
> De : Alex Rollin <[email protected]>
>À : Christian Quest <[email protected]>
>Cc : [email protected]
>Envoyé le : Lundi 22 octobre 2012 11h30
>Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Tracking Something/Anything in OSM
>
>
>I live in Indonesia. Someone emailed me because they watch the coastlines.
>
>
>I was amazed. I have asked myself for 6 months how he did that, does that,
>and if I can do that.
>
>
>I know it's possible to watch the area of a bounding box...I signed up for
>something to receive an RSS update of changes happening within that bounding
>box.
>
>
>I do hope this can become part of the ... expected use ...of changesets ..or
>the api.
>
>
>It seems to me this is the way that the project, the OSM project, can
>be...like Wikipedia...with a lot of editors watching the same area or
>nodes/ways.
>I don't mean to make any other comparison with that, I just mean that it
>enables a lot of focused collaboration.
>
>
>Alex
>
>
>
>On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Christian Quest <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>Something like this is under development here:
>>
>>http://osm102.openstreetmap.fr/~zorglub/watch/
>>
>>
>>2012/10/22 Alex Rollin <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> How does one monitor something?
>>>
>>> If there is a list of schools that is maintained by a school district, is it
>>> possible that the school district can be notified if one of the
>>> nodes/ways/items is changed?
>>>
>>> Can someone take 2 minutes to write down what is involved in this?
>>>
>>> Terms like "ask the api for information about the object" is the level of
>>> understanding I have of this.
>>>
>>> Is it possible?
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France - http://openstreetmap.fr/u/cquest
>>
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