[OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #497 2020-01-21-2020-01-27

[Colin Smale]

On 2020-02-04 13:36, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 04.02.20 13:22, Colin Smale wrote: 
> 
>> Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't remember ever seeing
>> regional full history files.
> 
> The Geofabrik download server has full history files for every region it
> offers. Unlike the non-history extracts. these files are only available
> for users who log in with their OSM user name.

Aah, thanks Frederik, I didn't know about this. But the text on the site
seems to imply that it is only for "internal use" and I cannot use this
data for a public service, e.g. a website to animate changes in admin
boundaries. Can I get round that by cleaning out certain data? 

> that will be millions of API calls to get the full history
> of every node, way and relation involved. If it has to be, then it has
> to be.
> Famous last words before being blocked on the API ;)

At least I would only have to do it once, throttle the rate and leave it
running for a few days, and then keep it updated with the periodical
diffs.
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