[OSM-talk] New API suggestion: Allowing contributors to easily track their OSM-objects over time

[Andy Townsend]

On 22/08/2020 10:32, Andrew Harvey wrote:
>
> Nothing is stopping such a system being built at the moment as a 3rd 
> party service, just needs someone motivated enough to build and 
> support it.

Yes - exactly that.

Until such time as someone writes a "mailing list post to software 
translator"* it'll need someone to sit down and actually write some code.


>
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 19:11, pangoSE <pangose at riseup.net 
> <mailto:pangose at riseup.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     I would like to track all objects that I ever created or edited.
>     I suggest we implement a system to make this easy.
>
>     I suggest we create a new system that is updated every time a
>     changeset is uploaded. The new system tracks userids and osmids
>     and date of last change/edit.
>
>
The changeset feed and the OSM updates feed are both public. There are 
things similar to what you want that you can borrow from, but I doubt 
that there's anything that does _exactly_ what you want right now, so 
you'll need to write it.

Best Regards,

Andy

* People were making jokes about how it was impossible to do this 40 
years ago.  I remember people humorously suggesting "add-ons" to program 
generator "The Last One" 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_%28software%29 ) saying that 
"this, really, is the last program you will ever need".  I laughed at 
the time, but then spent quite a few years in the 80s and 90s writing 
code generators :)



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