zverik / mmwatch

Monitor OSM edits made with MAPS.ME editor

MAPS.ME Monitoring Site

A script and a simple web page for vieweing MAPS.ME edits statistics. It is installed at osmz.ru.

Installation

First, add server/mapsme-process.py to crontab. Like this:

*/3 * * * * /var/www/sites/mmwatch/mmwatch/process.py >> /var/www/sites/mmwatch/mmwatch/mapsme-process.log

It will create a database of changes and start updating it once every three minutes. If you need to pre-populate the database with earlier edits, comment out the cron line, delete mapsme-changes.db, edit the sequence number in mapsme-state.txt to an earlier value and run mapsme-process.py from a command line. It works rather slow, so be prepared to wait and, if unlucky, respond to OSM admins' mail about making requests to the API too often.

When pushing to the production, turn off DEBUG in mmwatch/config.py.

Now you need to add the WSGI application to your web server. Refer to this manual or maybe this one about Gunicorn.

Switching to Another Database

Edit mmwatch/config.py, replacing the DATABASE_URI. Refer to this section of the Peewee documentation.

API

There is almost no API in the service, except /user?name=<OSM User Name> call, which returns user's rank and number of edits.

Author and License

Written by Ilya Zverev, published under WTFPL.

mmwatch's Issues

A link to a specific changeset (and maybe a change)

Subj.
Use the anchor unicore letter.

Parse notes dump daily

Search for #mapsme and add notes to the changes stream.

Iraq gets too much edits

The main mapper from "Iraq" is Nesim (https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nesim), who comes from Batman/Turkeys and maps also there. So the country assignment is wrong.

Open in JOSM

A button to open an object in JOSM.

Add a country filter

Just a drop-down, I guess. Would require way coordinates and a lot of polygon files.

Database at http://mmwatch.osmz.ru is not refreshed

Last changes are for 20.10.2016 17:35

Export to geojson

A button to export all filtered edits to a geojson (of points). Limit 2000, for example.

Check objects for edits

Download histories of some objects hourly and check if they have been fixed by somebody. Put the hourly difference between creating and fixing into processed column.

Get rid of SQLite in favour of MySQL

Hi,
very often when I use mmwatch there is a

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator at root@localhost to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

It is not a serious issue. No details for the error are provided, so I can't submit a better report/patch.
Thanks.

Site is down

Both py.osmz.ru/mmwatch/ and mmmwatch.osmz.ru now redirect to osmz.ru.