On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Stefan de Konink <[email protected]> wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: >> It would probably be (a) difficult and (b) undesirable to return, along >> with a deleted way, the versions of nodes that were in force at the time the >> way was deleted. Remember we're not talking about a "time machine" function >> here (which would also be interesting, but entirely different). > > This 'timemachine' feature is actually on my todo list, because I expect it > could really very useful for generating animations from OpenStreetMap.
it would be a very interesting API to have, but my plans weren't that ambitious! this "deleted map" call is supposed to be to help editors better support pre-upload updating and undeletion, both of which are short-term things. rewinding through the history would be possible, but more difficult than the "time machine" feature, by getting the history of each element involved. i leave this as an exercise for the client ;-) >> These are things that people would have to keep in mind when playing with >> deleted objects. > > Very, very true. agreed. editors will probably have to implement some stuff to make it less easy for people to shoot themselves in the foot! cheers, matt _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
