Reporter: eMerzh
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 7.43pm, Sunday, 13th March 2011]

The feature of "users in your area" can be really usefull but the current implementation need some enhancements.

some enhancements can be to extend the radius as #436 or haev multiple radius as #437.

But what i think is easier and better is to order results by "active" users... or at least users that has already mapped something.

because in my area there is a lot of users but none has already edit the map.

we only need to change the :order close in the nearby method: http://git.openstreetmap.org/rails.git/blob/refs/heads/master:/app/models/user.rb#l117

Thanks