[OSM-talk] tracking down the 'owner' of a track

[Shaun McDonald]

On 5 May 2008, at 22:27, simon at mungewell.org wrote:

> Hi all,
> Is there a method of tracking down the 'owner' of a GPS track?
>

There is a trac ticket for this:
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/274

Have you taken a look in your osm user account? It should tell you  
your 10 nearest neighbours.

Shaun

> The reason I am asking is that there's a new one in my patch and I was
> just wondering who else is in the area. They have, however, not  
> tagged it
> in a way that I can search tags.
>
> I tried downloading the OSM data for the area via the export tab,  
> but that
> tells me nothing....
>
> The track is the un-vectored one in the middle of:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=49.5535&lon=-113.8478&zoom=13
>
> This also raises the question 'how long do you wait before you  
> consider a
> gps track abandoned?'.
> Simon.
>
>
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