osmdiff is a fairly old program. there is a better program called useractivity.pl. see wiki. however, it also needs the XML/osm files.
i use it to monitor certain areas regularly and i provide these checks on my server. gerhard On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 02:11 +0200, Erik Johansson wrote: > Does anyone have any scripts, manual methods or just tips that will > help in investigating a changeset? I find it very hard to understand > what it happening in a changset, it's easy to get an suspicion that > something is amiss but it's very hard to dig deeper. > > The only two things I've find was: > > * OSM history/changeset Vizualizer which give was to little information > * osmdiff which needs .osm files before and after the changeset > > Take this changeset on OSM main site and on OSM History Vizualizer, > it's very hard to figure out exactly what happend. (I'm not pointing > fingers at the creator of the changeset, I just haven't been bothered > to find a changeset where I have recreated and removed lots of stuff.) > > So to restate some questions. > > 1. what do you look for when you look at a changeset? > 2. is there a way to create the before.osm and after.osm files > given a changeset ID. (to make osmdiff happy) > 3. is there a similar changeset viewer like the one on the main > site, that doesn't make you click "next page" all the time.? > > > http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/7077/investigating-changesets > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
