[OSM-newbies] date of data collection

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Maitham <albakry77 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know how can I get the date of data collection please?
>
> With my best wishes
> maythm Al bakri

Hi Maythm Al Bakri,

Welcome back.  How is your paper progressing?

You can find the history of an individual object which includes the
creation date and each edit date.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/276474692/history

If you wish to find this information for many objects you should
extract it from the planet history dump.
http://planet.openstreetmap.org/full-experimental/