[OSM-talk] Activity statistics per city (or region)

[Philip Barnes]

On Tue Oct 27 10:05:04 2015 GMT, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote:
> Þann 27.10.2015 07:09, Paul Norman reit:
> > On 10/26/2015 8:24 AM, Fabian Schmidt wrote:
> >> It is rare but there are users who renamed their account, so there are 
> >> more user names than numeric user ids.
> > 
> > No. Although users have renamed their account, this doesn't increase
> > the number of user names, it changes one of them.
> > 
> > Additionally, user IDs are a PostgreSQL serial so there can be gaps,
> > and spam users are sometimes completely deleted.
> 
> I'm guessing he meant that there are more user names in the changelogs 
> than actually exist, if you are parsing changelogs over several time 
> periods. I'm guessing the user name change is reflected instantly in the 
> changelog after renaming.
> 
I did change my username as my preferred username became available around the licence change time.

My early edits, made under my old username trig222, show as my present username trigpoint. 

OSMhelp and the wiki do still guide me towards trig222 however.

Phil (trigpoint)
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