[OSM-talk] full history of a way?

[Nic Roets]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> > 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


I would love to implement the "give me this area as it was last year" server
when I find time. Around 1000 lines of blindingly fast C code. Here are some
of my notes.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6
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