[Talk-GB] How to get a Relation History?

[David Dixon]

Hi Graham,

On 15/01/2012 09:28, Graham Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to find the history of the relation covering the Weardale
> Way ( 86561 ).   I can view the relation itself ok at
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/86561, but when I try to
> view the history of it with
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/86561/history, I always get
> a 'sorry...took too long to retrieve' error.
> Does anyone know an alternative way of finding out who edited it before me?

You can, if patient, step back through versions with:
http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/86561/132
http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/86561/131
etc.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Steve_NI in September perhaps?

> Alternatively, I'll ask the question here in case the other user reads
> this list....
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> I am minded to believe that the sign I saw with 'Weardale Way' written
> on it was a mistake and it should have been a plain 'public footpath'
> sign, but I do not know how to check this.   I wondered if whoever had
> completed the Weardale Way had another source of information about the
> route that we can use in OSM to check it.   If we can confirm that the
> sign is incorrect, I will remove the extra spur path from the route.
>

I'm not the user who recently finished off the Weardale Way (and I don't 
know whether that was done from survey) but surveying the Way has been 
one of my projects.  The route between Frosterley and Wolsingham used to 
be a low level route running close to the railway (the way you've just 
walked), but was subsequently changed to a more interesting higher level 
route (the one that's part of the complete OSM relation).  The signs you 
saw have almost certainly been superseded, but perhaps could be mapped 
as a separate "Old Weardale Way" or alternative route relation?

Hope that helps,

David