[OSM-talk] Investigating missing relation

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 01/28/11 03:50, Steve Bennett wrote:
> Are there any tools available to investigate this kind of thing?

Yes, you can use "wget" to download the full history planet file and 
then look for something in that file. This is slightly difficult because 
the file is huge and you will need to employ some sort of XML parser or 
other tricks to work with it (pure grep doesn't work as the file has no 
newlines).

I was lucky to have an uncompressed history file lying around so I could 
use dd to skip to the relation section, then add linefeeds and grep for 
"Overland Track" which found this relation: 413916

It has been deleted by user "NRS" three weeks ago.

Bye
Frederik