[OSM-talk] Tool to detect all accounts that created specific objects in a given area

[Rory McCann]

If you know standard unix command line tools, you could use osmium to convert a history file to an OPL format ( `osmium cat -f opl HISTORYFILE | ...`), and then do some grep/sed/cut/etc to see who's edited a thing.

https://osmcode.org/osmium-tool/

On Wed, 03 Feb 2021  8:33, Mateusz Konieczny via talk <talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> Is there some already existing tool to get authors of all people who edited
> some specific objects?
> 
> Basically, I want to specify an Overpass Query and get in response example
> changeset for every account who edited this object.
> 
> I ask this as I run into big undiscussed import, that is likely a 
> copyright violation
> and involves such uneditable objects as landuse=farmland made of 933 
> ways.
> 
> It clearly qualifies for mass-revert, but I want to ask all involved accounts to
> give them chance to respond 
> 
> (maybe actually this import was discussed?
> maybe they will provide info abut source, post to imports@ and fix 
> supermassive
> relations - chances of that are low, but I want to start from that, not 
> from mass
> revert).
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