History of an area

[Andreeeee]

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”?

[Duja]

Simpler one:

Latest OpenStreetMap Edits per Tile

More advanced one:

OSMCha

[ivanbranco]

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.

[Vinzenz_Mai]

@Andreeeee

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”?

If I understand you correctly then please read

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@Vinzenz_Mai

only a few edits and big bounding box of the changeset would be a simple rule to avoid vandalism such as was done some months ago. It would affect your valid edit injustly. To be able to edit the names of a big area as @ZeLonewolf has done it seems you’ve got to do a lot of edits on a smaller scale like i.e. name:en of towns or other ones that you can do.

[TrickyFoxy]

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)

@Andreeeee

Is there some permission model, which would limit such edits

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