Thank you, its nice to know these things. Fun stuff. Cheerio John
On 14 December 2011 11:31, 80n <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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