[OSM-dev] Potlatch history

[Dave Stubbs]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> It seems to me that the history function in Potlatch (shortcut key H) has
> a bug.
>
> Example: way 6313107, which is the southern part of the railway at
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=50.815555&lon=5.717638&zoom=18>.
>
> When I view the history in Potlatch, it tells me the previous version is
> from Seat Ibiza and there are some 16 older versions.
> When I take the history from
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/6313107/history>, OSM tells me
> there are 5 versions, none of which have been made by Seat Ibiza.
>
> I see these inconsistencies on more ways than just this one. Take any way
> in that editwindow.
> Or is there some logic behind the Potlatch history that I'm missing?
>


The nodes have been moved -- Potlatch takes this into account where as
the API does not.
(ie: Potlatch's history is way more useful :-))

Dave