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<p>On 2020-02-04 13:36, Frederik Ramm wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Hi,<br /><br /> On 04.02.20 13:22, Colin Smale wrote:
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<br /> The Geofabrik download server has full history files for every region it<br /> offers. Unlike the non-history extracts. these files are only available<br /> for users who log in with their OSM user name.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Aah, thanks Frederik, I didn't know about this. But the text on the site seems to imply that it is only for "internal use" and I cannot use this data for a public service, e.g. a website to animate changes in admin boundaries. Can I get round that by cleaning out certain data?</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">that will be millions of API calls to get the full history<br /> of every node, way and relation involved. If it has to be, then it has<br /> to be.<br /> Famous last words before being blocked on the API ;)<br /><br /></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">At least I would only have to do it once, throttle the rate and leave it running for a few days, and then keep it updated with the periodical diffs.</div>
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