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

[pangoSE]

2021-02-03 08:33 skrev Mateusz Konieczny via talk:
> 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).

We lack good tooling to support this kind of communication. I once tried
contacting every single contributor (30 or so in total) to hospitals in
Mali because I wanted CC0 coordinates so I could add them in wikidata.

It was very frustrating having to use osm.org manually and in the end I
got only 2-3 replies so I gave up. I found the users via JOSM browsing
the history manually which was very ineffective also. The replies were
all permissive, so people DO want to share and be asked. 

Is there an API for contacting a user programmatically? If yes, it makes
this work a lot easier.