Hi Graham, On 15/01/2012 09:28, Graham Jones wrote:
Hi, I am trying to find the history of the relation covering the Weardale Way ( 86561 ). I can view the relation itself ok at http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/86561, but when I try to view the history of it with http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/86561/history, I always get a 'sorry...took too long to retrieve' error. Does anyone know an alternative way of finding out who edited it before me?
You can, if patient, step back through versions with: http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/86561/132 http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/86561/131 etc. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Steve_NI in September perhaps?
Alternatively, I'll ask the question here in case the other user reads this list....
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I am minded to believe that the sign I saw with 'Weardale Way' written on it was a mistake and it should have been a plain 'public footpath' sign, but I do not know how to check this. I wondered if whoever had completed the Weardale Way had another source of information about the route that we can use in OSM to check it. If we can confirm that the sign is incorrect, I will remove the extra spur path from the route.
I'm not the user who recently finished off the Weardale Way (and I don't know whether that was done from survey) but surveying the Way has been one of my projects. The route between Frosterley and Wolsingham used to be a low level route running close to the railway (the way you've just walked), but was subsequently changed to a more interesting higher level route (the one that's part of the complete OSM relation). The signs you saw have almost certainly been superseded, but perhaps could be mapped as a separate "Old Weardale Way" or alternative route relation?
Hope that helps, David _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
