Hi, I would like to draw everyone's attention to a long-standing community recommendation:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_changeset_comments It explains why you should use sensible changeset comments that describe what you (think you) have been doing. I don't know exactly who encourages this, but I am seeing lots of changesets with comments like this: #MissingMaps #hotosm-project-12345 Lubumbashi, Congo (DRC) #100mapathons #OSMGeoWeek This is *not* useful. First of all, we're not Twitter; we don't evaluate these hashtags. I don't know if there are some downstream services that do, but if so, please switch to using a secondary tag (remember, changesets, like other OSM objects, can have any number of tags). As a reader of the edit history of a place, I am interested in someone writing that they have traced buildings or drawn roads or done whatever. I'm not so much interested in (what I perceive as) vanity hashtags, they don't help me understand what the person did. I mean look at this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/history#map=6/8.418/43.923 It's really a caricature of what changeset comments were meant to be. Can it be fixed somehow, or have we permanently moved from changeset comments being aimed at your fellow human mappers to changeset comments being auto-generated for consumption by some software that makes sense of them? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
