[josm-dev] re-licensing status display in the user list

[Paul Hartmann]

Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
> On 04/24/2011 12:02 AM, Jo wrote:
>> It surprises me a bit that only the relicensing status of the
>> last editor for a primitive is shown. Is it considered enough that a user
>> who agreed to the CTs touched a primitive as the last editor, to have it
>> relicensed (cleanly) to ODBL?
> 
> no, but:
> <educated guess>
> OSM XML data downloaded via the API usually only contains
> the latest version of an object and so only the user name
> of the last editor. Downloading the full history for every
> object would substantially increase both the amount of
> data to transfer and the OSM server load, so JOSM only
> shows the information it has at hand which is the last
> editor ...?
> </educated guess>

That's right, but I guess the situation will gradually improve in future. Frederik Ramm has announced a new Quick History Service [1], but someone has to write JOSM support for it. :)

[1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2011-April/022361.html

-- Paul