[OSM-dev] database history

[D Tucny]

2009/1/6 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>

> I was looking on the history of this way:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/way/23322317/history
>
> and found, that the first 3 are completely the same (beside that the first
> entry and No. 2 and 3 have a different created by-tag), or am I missing
> something? Is this a case that can be found more often?
>

If you have a look at the nodes in the way, some of them changed position...
If I recall correctly, potlatch, the online editor save a new version of the
way, and potentially all nodes within it, if any part of the way is
modified... In this case, only changes to node positions occurred between
the second and third versions being saved...
Specifically, this node
http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/node/252528351/history

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