It’s a new year and we have some new features in OSMCha!!! Let’s take a look on them:
Save filter UI improved
Now it’s easier to save a filter! After set your filter parameters, click on the Save button on the top of the screen, give a name to it and press the Confirm Save button. The filter will be saved and applied, so the sidebar will update with the results. If you want to change something in your filter later, repeat those steps. Remember that the filters have a RSS feed. Get the link in your OSMCha user page.
Changeset comments
From now on, when we review a changeset in OSMCha, a comment will be posted in the OSM changeset page. That way, we give a feedback to the user and make that information accessible to other Quality Assurance tools. The comments have a predefined message and are posted with your username.
Tag changes summary
Each changeset now has a summary of tag changes. This makes it easy to identify the modifications made in the features without the need of clicking on them one by one.
We’d love to hear your comments and suggestions. You can do so by participating in our mailing list or open issues on our github repository.
Discussion
Comentariu de Linhares el 9 de January de 2018 a les 18:37
Very good, Wille!
I used to save the url to not lose my filter options ;)
Abraços, Linhares
Comentariu de mvexel el 10 de January de 2018 a les 05:26
Great work on this tool, Wille.
Comentariu de PlaneMad el 10 de January de 2018 a les 10:01
This is amazing, thank you Wille!
Comentariu de Zverik el 10 de January de 2018 a les 12:29
Awesome, thanks Wille!
Do tag changes affect any of validations? Like, adding many footways and parks may signal this is a Pokemon Go edit.
Comentariu de wille el 10 de January de 2018 a les 13:11
@Zverik No, the tag changes summary runs in the frontend when the page is rendered, but it’s a good idea to identify some patterns and convert it on alerts.
Comentariu de Mateusz Konieczny el 12 de January de 2018 a les 14:38
“[OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha” was started at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2018-January/thread.html
Comentariu de wille el 12 de January de 2018 a les 16:09
Thanks, Mateus!
About the changeset comments… This was supported by some members of the community: https://github.com/willemarcel/osmcha-django/issues/128
Soon, I’ll improve it to give more options to the users. Right now, if you don’t want that OSMCha post comments to the changesets that you are reviewing, when signing up to OSMCha, don’t give permissions to “modify the map”.
Comentariu de mvexel el 12 de January de 2018 a les 20:44
I agree that it could be improved, but I do think that it is a move in a good direction and will encourage especially new users by making them feel part of the community. Some improvements I can think of..
On the OSM server side you should be able to opt out of emails, perhaps this is already possible, but if not it should be.
Comentariu de 4004 el 21 de January de 2018 a les 00:14
Thanks for the update! I love using osmcha to catch up on edits in a particular area, although sometimes it doesn’t pull all of them in. Change set comments are a step in the right direction, localization of those would help
Comentariu de wille el 9 de February de 2018 a les 20:23
Hi, Everyone!
We released a new version of OSMCha with some changes to the changeset comment feature. You can know about this new release on my new diary post: osm.org/user/wille/diary/43287