[OSM-talk] History of relation 20773

[Maarten Deen]

On 2012-11-16 11:03, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 16/11/12 08:30, Maarten Deen wrote:
>
>> Relation 20773 is currently at v1159. I can get the XML back to 
>> v1155
>> (http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/20773/1155), but 
>> versions
>> before that don't not show anything.
>> When a relation is deleted, I should still get the base info with at
>> least <relation id="20773" visible="false", should I not?
>>
>> Interestingly, when I go even further back, from 973 downwards it 
>> works
>> again. I haven't tried everything betwee 973 and 1154.
>
> I expect the missing versions were redacted as part of the license 
> change.

Can't the API give out some kind of information in such cases? An XML 
message of some sort? Now you get nothing. For a user it might well be 
that the api is malfunctioning. JOSM handles it with an error message 
"Authorisation at the OSM server failed. The server reported the 
following error: ' '".
Not really helpful.
I was led to understand that the info is still available, but with a 
state "redacted" (similar to "deleted").

Regards,
Maarten