History of an area

What’s the current best practice to get a history of an area, without the large edits (such as editing 2 nodes on two continents, hence appearing ± everywhere)?

There are multiple topics in the past (e.g. Large Edit areas ), but most of the tools are dead.

How can one proceed on monitoring e.g. “their area” for vandalism?

On a relate note, why are the large edits a thing even? I doubt there’s a good reason to allow edits spanning more than a few degrees. Is there some permission model, which would limit such edits (and e.g. changing continent/country shape) to only “experienced editors”?

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Simpler one:

More advanced one:

Also Better-osm-org: a script that adds useful little things to osm.org adds a flag to hide big changesets directly from the main website.

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If I understand you correctly then please read

If you want to set up monitoring, then filters in OSMCha + RSS feed are your choice.

Pascal Neis also has an RSS feed for monitoring newcomers in the desired area Create Your Personal OpenStreetMap Contributors Feed @ ResultMaps.neis-one.org and a list of new mappers by country https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/newestosm

p.s. Example, RSS reader that runs in the browser: Feedbro - RSS Feed Reader with built-in Rule Engine

Also, if you do not want to install additional scripts in the browser, then to quickly find edits, you can use Easy Changeset Viewer(ver 2023/09/24)

Yes, starting this year, accounts that are less than a month old can no longer make big edits.