[Talk-GB] Idiot in area of Kielder Water

80n 80n80n at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 12:18:29 BST 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> In message <8fcd02310804300345s5eeba8eex345e61dcfc6a17d9 at mail.gmail.com>
>         80n80n at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > The username is Applewach not Applewatch.
>
> No it isn't... We have no user called Applewach in the database
> but we do have one called Applewatch, and that is who JOSM reports
> created that inventive addition to the UK motorway network.
>
> > The full extent of his handiwork can be got here:
> > http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*[osm:user=Applewach]<http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*%5Bosm:user=Applewach%5D>
>
> The only thing I can think is that the user changed their name
> and xapi has the old one still?
>

Generally xapi will have the username that was used at the time that the
edit was originally made.  This is all that's available in the Osmosis
feeds.

I suppose the username could be synchronised from a planet dump
occasionally.

Any chance of providing the user Id as well as the name?

80n



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