History of an area

[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

How can I add a name:en tag to the island of Sicily

Hi, the relation 6197225 is the relation place=island for Sicily. It currently doesn’t have a name:en tag and I wanted to add it. So I went to: I went through the steps to add a tag. I expanded the tags, added the new tag, and then hit save. I entered a description and ticked for someone to check my change. When I hit OK though it said the bounding box size had been exceeded. I hadn’t changed this - intentionally. Now I am blind and use a screen reader and can’t see any graphics on my…

@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.