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Back after hiatus

Posted by mvexel on 6 October 2021 in English.

Hi all, I have started mapping a bit again after a hiatus. Due to my inactivity “my” country has been re-assigned, but no worries I am happy to start from scratch!

I’ve started creating a couple of towns in this area, one along an existing highway I extended a bit, and one connected to the first town only by rail.

My goal eventually is to have a country or region that is entirely car-free. If someone shares that goal I am happy to collaborate on it.

Happy mapping!

Whodidit tool for OGF?

Posted by mvexel on 18 February 2019 in English.

Hi all,

This is my first diary post, but it’s more like a question.. I would have posted it on the forum, but I can’t figure out how to log into that. It seems to be connected to a wiki account which I do not have either and am unsure how to get.

In the OSM world I use a tool called ‘whodidit’ which shows you recent edits for an area in a useful and clear grid cell representation. You can even generate an RSS feed so you can set up something to notify you when someone edits in an area easily.

I didn’t find a version of this tool for OGF. Technically it would be easy enough to install but I don’t know if the endpoints required are available in the OGF world. Specifically whodidit queries https://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/ and https://planet.openstreetmap.org/replication/hour. Does OGF mimic this aspect of OSM infrastructure, allowing tools like this to be adapted to work in the OGF world?