[OSM-newbies] Track changes in OSM

[John F. Eldredge]

Craig Wallace <craigw84 at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 17/01/2013 19:35, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
> > I've used JOSM about a week ago to add some buildings to OSM. Or at
> > least I think I did - as looking at the same place again now they
> seem
> > to have disappeared. How can I find out if I really did add them
> there,
> > and if they were deleted? I have found OSM History Browser and OSM
> > History Viewer in the wiki - but they require a way or node ID. As
> these
> > elements have been potentially removed, I don't have their ID's. How
> > would one go about finding out what was once in an area of the map?
> I
> > have uploaded quite a few changesets in the last week - so trawling
> > through them might be very time consuming. Any other way?
> 
> You could try the OWL service, click the History tab here: 
> http://owl.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/
> 
> That should show any changes in the area. Though this is currently a 
> beta service, it may not be working correctly, or may be missing data.
> 
> I'm not sure how up to date it is.
> 
> Craig
> 
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>From my experiences with Potlatch, going into edit mode will often show recent changes that haven't been rendered yet on the tiles used in map-viewing mode.

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