On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Nick Whitelegg <[email protected] > wrote:
> > Doesn't make any difference to the CTs, but I've noticed but I'm not the > first named author of a few ways which I'm 99.99% sure that I created: the > ways with the ID 2232-2235. I still remember the surveying/editing session > in which I created the ways. > > These were very early ways (spring 2006) so I'm guessing that recording > the history of who created/edited ways only came in after that? However, > ways with even lower IDs (e.g. 223) do have myself as original author. > Curious as to why my involvement with the 223x ways appears to have been > lost... > > All history prior to 7th October 2007 was lost when the API was upgraded from 0.4 to 0.5. An email from that date confirms this[1]: 4. History cleared. History will continue to be written as before, > but we have removed past history data from the database today. When > accessing existing objects you can still see the person who last > modified them (even if that modification was before the switch), but > no details about any previous modifications. > Everything that was not version 1 on 7th October 2007 has an incomplete history and ought to be considered to be unsafe. 80n [1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-October/018638.html
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