[OSM-talk] history in xml format

[Shaun McDonald]

On 23 Jun 2009, at 21:32, Bernhard zwischenbrugger wrote:

> hi
>> There's no API that gives you OSM data on a per-changeset basis. You
>> can only retrieve osmChange files which are all changes within a  
>> given
>> timeframe (e.g. minutely, hourly, daily).
>>
>
> Do you mean this:
> http://planet.openstreetmap.org/minute/
>
> It's about 5minutes delayed.
>
> The data at
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets
> are not delayed.
> There must be an other source for these data.
>

Why do you want more up to date that data from 5 minutes ago?

There was a discussion on this recently. Can't find the thread just now.

Basically for efficiency a 5 minute delay is acceptable to have with  
the ultimate caching and greatest availability of service to everyone.

There is currently some work going on to reduce this delay.

Do NOT hammer the API with requests, otherwise you will get banned.

Shaun