[OSM-talk] Who mapped it first with ref to forth coming deletions

[john whelan]

Thank you, its nice to know these things.  Fun stuff.

Cheerio John

On 14 December 2011 11:31, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Nick Whitelegg <
> Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> Doesn't make any difference to the CTs, but I've noticed but I'm not the
>> first named author of a few ways which I'm 99.99% sure that I created: the
>> ways with the ID 2232-2235. I still remember the surveying/editing session
>> in which I created the ways.
>>
>> These were very early ways (spring 2006) so I'm guessing that recording
>> the history of who created/edited ways only came in after that? However,
>> ways with even lower IDs (e.g. 223) do have myself as original author.
>> Curious as to why my involvement with the 223x ways appears to have been
>> lost...
>>
>>
> All history prior to 7th October 2007 was lost when the API was upgraded
> from 0.4 to 0.5.
>
> An email from that date confirms this[1]:
>
> 4. History cleared. History will continue to be written as before,
>> but we have removed past history data from the database today. When
>> accessing existing objects you can still see the person who last
>> modified them (even if that modification was before the switch), but
>> no details about any previous modifications.
>>
>
> Everything that was not version 1 on 7th October 2007 has an incomplete
> history and ought to be considered to be unsafe.
>
> 80n
>
> [1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-October/018638.html
>
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