[OSM-talk] full history of a way?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

MP wrote:
> So currently, if I want to know "how was the way drawn in time T", I
> had to get history of the way, then find out which nodes were used by
> the way in time T, then get history from each of the nodes and pick
> appropriate node from the history, given the time. Then combine this
> into output XML which I can view

If you often have this kind of query, consider downloading and suitably 
preparing some old planet files for quick access to old data with proper 
referential integrity.

> Perhaps this could be improved in 0.7, by having some
> "[way|relation]/#id/history-full" call, which will return history of
> referenced way (or relation), including history of all node (ways)
> that was referenced at least in one of the historic or current
> versions. Sort of combination of /history and /full

I'd rather hope someone builds some kind of "time machine" service that 
has these capabilities (plus a "give me this area as it was last year" 
API call). There is no pressing reason to burden the central API with 
that once we figure out how to publish full history dumps.

Bye
Frederik

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