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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 3, 2021, 11:22 by pangose@riseup.net:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>We lack good tooling to support this kind of communication. I once tried<br></div><div>contacting every single contributor (30 or so in total) to hospitals in<br></div><div>Mali because I wanted CC0 coordinates so I could add them in wikidata.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It was very frustrating having to use osm.org manually and in the end I<br></div><div>got only 2-3 replies so I gave up. I found the users via JOSM browsing<br></div><div>the history manually which was very ineffective also. The replies were<br></div><div>all permissive, so people DO want to share and be asked. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Is there an API for contacting a user programmatically? If yes, it makes<br></div><div>this work a lot easier.<br></div></blockquote><div>Contacting itself seems easy - just generate list of changesets one <br></div><div>per user ( or <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/message/new/woodpeck">https://www.openstreetmap.org/message/new/USERNAME</a> ) links,<br></div><div>with up to 50 users it should be easy to message all of them. <br></div><div><br></div><div>For more users it would start to become clearly spammy.<br></div><div><br></div><div>"found the users via JOSM browsing the history manually"</div><div>is not viable if you want to find all editors who edited landuse in a<br></div><div>given area, and single multipolygon has over 60 000 nodes.<br></div> </body>
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