The editing API is primarily intended for editing the map. While some non-editing usage is permitted, if your application will be making many calls on a continuous basis, the editing API will not be the appropriate thing to use. See here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_usage_policy
If you are looking for a continuous feed of changes, there are data diffs that are published on a minutely, hourly or daily basis. These are available from http://planet.osm.org/replication/ and documented at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm/diffs There are tools to help consume these. Osmosis is the one that comes to mind first but I think there are some others as well. If you are just after the changeset metadata (so no map objects, just what is visible for example here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/42768543 ) then you can use the changeset replication diffs at http://planet.osm.org/replication/changesets/ for which I have a parser that will both import the historical dump and keep up with minutely diffs: https://github.com/ToeBee/ChangesetMD This is a lot less data to deal with than full map object history which can be rather overwhelming. Toby On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Liming Zhang <tongjiyim...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think I find something to try now. In API v0.6, it state: > > History: GET /api/0.6/[node|way|relation]/#id/history > > Retrieves all old versions of an element. > > > I believe this maybe what I am looking for. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Liming(Lem) Zhang > > Presidential Scholar, PhD student, George Mason University > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Liming Zhang <tongjiyim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thank you! I am pretty new to OSM, so I might mislead my question. What I >> want is something like JSON`s <key, value> pair data. The raw logging of >> different users and associated information, something looks like: >> { [user name: Jack, >> time: 08/20/2012, >> editing Node: ..., >> editing Line: ..., >> editing Tag: ...] } >> >> I am not just looking for a historial snapshot/version of a data set. >> Basically, it is some API which can fetch data from OSM. Not sure if this is >> clear. Of course, I am in a quite initial stage of idea. Just try to explore >> possibility and current development in the community. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Liming(Lem) Zhang >> >> Presidential Scholar, PhD student, George Mason University >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> What do you mean by "editing log"? Do you just want a list of >>> changesets? Or do you want all the map objects they have touched as >>> well? >>> >>> Do you want historic data for analysis or real-time updates for >>> current edits? Or both? >>> >>> Depending on these options, this could be a trivial task or an involved >>> project. >>> >>> Toby >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Liming Zhang <tongjiyim...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > Hello, >>> > >>> > I want to develop a simple app to retrieve user`s editing log from >>> > openstreetmap. Anyone know how to do that? or some correct direction to >>> > go >>> > after? >>> > >>> > Thank you! >>> > >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > Liming(Lem) Zhang >>> > >>> > Presidential Scholar, PhD student, George Mason University >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > dev mailing list >>> > dev@openstreetmap.org >>> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >>> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
