Tom Hughes
Tom Hughes
Duplicate of https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2276.
How does this actually help with mapping though?
I didn't question whether it had been requested, just whether it had a use case that was in scope for the site. I'm sure lots of people want to show...
The problem is that as soon we start doing this for one site everybody wants their site integrated (as you've just proven by using routing as a reason to ask...
Well there hasn't been any deliberate change so there can't be a reason for it. As far as zoom goes it looks to me like the results have the same...
While there have been changes to search recently I can't see anything that would affect this and it looks like code from a year ago would behave the same.
The cookie only has an effect indirectly - the main cause is that we send `map.getZoom()` as the zoom when doing a search: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/541f0630ac0a63d0477aa4d6cfb01c648290b963/app/assets/javascripts/index/search.js#L137 and the server echoes that zoom...
Why would an editor want to get the history for lots of objects?
The phrase "reporting user" as in the title of this PR makes more sense than "reporter user" that is actually used...
Yes it will reduce the number of calls. By replacing them with one very expensive call. I fail to see how this is a win when this is not something...