Are there any reliable tools for determining which "state" a node belongs too? (On a global level).

Or is it something like:
Query all the administrative boundaries. Find out what level is state in each country. Find if the node is enclosed in the polygon of the administrative boundary?

Specifically addressing this point:

>Just because people don't comment on your changesets doesn't mean they completely approve of you making giant multi-continent bounding boxes.

If people don't raise issues they have, then they can't be upset when those issues aren't considered.

About large bounding boxes. Taking the max and min lat/long of changes and drawing a box is not the greatest way to highlight area affected. Using a rotated rect could show very differently results for a long thin diagonal edit.

Or within the changeset box, highlighting some areas where change was actually affected.

My opinion about large bounding box issues is that they are a problem of the tools, not the act. Review tools that don't properly highlight the changes are causing mappers to get freaked out.

This changeset is a little large in area. If possible it's better to commit changesets in the local area affected. The clinic in the top left is unrelated to the edits in Tokyo, so it creates a very large edit bounding box.

少し大きいですね。関係ない物は別々での方が良いと思います。

I'd like to help update Toyama. I don't want to accidentally affect work you've done. Would it be possible for you to consider slightly more descriptive changeset comments?

Thanks! Sorry I made such a mistake.

Out of curiosity is way/327062054 supposed to be something?

Why does this edit a node in Japan on a storage tank?