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

[John Eldredge]

If someone changes their user name, do change logs from before the name 
change still show the old user name, or do the change logs link to a user 
table, and thus show the new name?

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John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
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On October 27, 2015 5:26:29 AM Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:

> 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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