[OSM-dev] Accessing history of OSM objects

[Mateusz Konieczny]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 23:51:11 +0000
Aycan Ayyilmaz <aayyilmaz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am a MIS Master Student who works on thesis project about the
> quality evaluation of the OSM data using parameters related to users
> such as activity level, number of edits, local knowledge, number of
> tags...etc. I have started to a coursera class on Machine Learning
> for that purpose.
> 
> Since I am new to this area, I was looking for a way to get
> historical data for a small region just to explore.(entities and
> their edit history will be combined with user info) Then, I will
> expand the region.
> 
> Do you have any advices for me about this issue? including parameters
> for evaluation and preparing the data.
> 
> Ps: I am not a developer but I have intermediate programming
> knowledge. I just need a guidance where to start.
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 

See
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Overpass_QL#Attic_data_.28.22date.22.29
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28030075/openstreetmap-queries-on-history