Nodes outside of area are considered

[mvexel]

This is by design but perhaps the design is wrong :)

When a user has edited many nodes on ways that get pulled in because they are part of a relation that intersects the defined area, those nodes are all counted towards their score.

One example I encountered was user Keith appeared as a top mapper in the Perth area, but upon closer inspection they had mainly edited lots of coastline in southern / western Australia and not all that much in the defined Perth bounding box.

[mvexel]

this is the relevant line in the code