Talk:Key:changesets count

Purpose of this tag

What is the purpose of this tag? This data can be retrieved from the history. Why does iD add it explicitly? --Victor.yarema (talk) 08:58, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

It can be gotten from the history, but not that easily (you have to parse the full history). I suspect iD adds it to facilitate other tools that can look more closely at changes made by new users. Just a guess. JesseFW (talk) 03:36, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Changeser count displayed on user profile, for example. IMHO, this tag is useless. Something B (talk) 21:52, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Having the count displayed on the user profile doesn't help tools that only receive changesets -- the point is to be able, just from the tags on the changeset, to identify new users, and highlight their changes for review. JesseFW (talk) 01:47, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Although OSMCha also displays changeset count, and label "new mapper" without changesets_count=*. Something B (talk) 08:06, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Interesting -- presumably it keeps its own local index; how do you know it doesn't use changesets_count=*? JesseFW (talk) 13:38, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

changesets_count=* tag added only by iD, but changeset count displayed always. Something B (talk) 13:54, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

As long as only changes made with the ID editor are counted, this tag is useless.