[Accessibility] Changeset monitroing

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On 24. nov. 2009, at 12.23, Sprok Bence wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is a way to monitor the newest chagesets via  
> the
> OSM API.
> My idea is to capture the latest data changes quite often (e.g.  
> every 5
> minutes) and get the modifications in a standard OSM-XML format.
>
>
> Does anyone have an idea how to start this?


The dev list is probably a better place to discuss this, but there are  
regular diffs:
http://planet.openstreetmap.org/minute-replicate/

Osmosis can help you download everything in order, and even convert it  
for you if you need it to.

Don't abuse the API by fetching all the changes from it, the diffs are  
there for a reason.

-- 
Knut Arne Bjørndal
aka Bob Kåre
bob+osm at cakebox.net
bobkare at irc



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