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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-09-02 08:34, Mateusz Konieczny
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:55:14 +0200
"André Pirard" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:a.pirard.papou@gmail.com"><a.pirard.papou@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 2015-08-31 20:12, � wrote :
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:55:27 +0200
moltonel 3x Combo <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:moltonel@gmail.com"><moltonel@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 31/08/2015, Mateusz Konieczny <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:matkoniecz@gmail.com"><matkoniecz@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Is there some method to automate finding who introduced tags?
Doing it manually would not be worth the effort. On the other
hand - running script to detect users (and/or relevant
changesets) may be a good idea.
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<pre wrap="">curl -s
'<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=%5Bout%3Ajson%5D%5Btimeout%3A25%5D%3B%0A%28%0A%20%20node%5B%22surface%22%3D%22soil%22%5D%3B%0A%20%20way%5B%22surface%22%3D%22soil%22%5D%3B%0A%20%20relation%5B%22surface%22%3D%22soil%22%5D%3B%0A%29%3B%0Aout%20meta%3B">http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=%5Bout%3Ajson%5D%5Btimeout%3A25%5D%3B%0A%28%0A%20%20node%5B%22surface%22%3D%22soil%22%5D%3B%0A%20%20way%5B%22surface%22%3D%22soil%22%5D%3B%0A%20%20relation%5B%22surface%22%3D%22soil%22%5D%3B%0A%29%3B%0Aout%20meta%3B</a>'
| grep user | sort| uniq -c
or
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=%22surface%22%3D%22soil%22+global">http://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=%22surface%22%3D%22soil%22+global</a>
(and add 'meta' to the output to extract the user/changeset)
These have the usual drawback that they only return who last
touched the object, not who introduced a particular tag. It gets
more complicated to do things exactly right, but this is a good
starting point.
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<pre wrap="">Getting latest person who edited object is really easy. The
history is main problem - is there some API for getting old
version for given objects with user/changeset that edited it?
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<pre wrap="">At least the main API can give you the old versions of the object
in .osm using:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/node/$i/$v">http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/node/$i/$v</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/node/3157502486/history">http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/node/3157502486/history</a>
will return the complete list (history) of authors, changesets and
dates for a given element.
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Yes, this would work (some parsing still would be needed). Unfortunately
according to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_usage_policy">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_usage_policy</a> it is
not OK to use API for that purpose.
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What policy, what purpose, that's unclear?<br>
Is OSM.org using that API to display the history on the screen
illegal?<br>
Is Osmose using it to attribute errors to some user illegal?<br>
Yep, I suppose that making oneself a complete list of OSM users is
inappropriate.<br>
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Regarding the needed parsing: use regex (as in perl again): it does
wonders!<br>
If you need regex drill, install it in some editor like Advanced
Find/Replace plugin for gedit. Gorgeous.<br>
(there are packages to handle xml more correctly but regex is OK for
that kind of predictable, repetitive data.)<br>
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