ChangeSets in HDYC
by Pascal Neis - Published: December 9th, 2010
Last weekend I added some information to “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap ?“. The “ChangeSets” (1) of an OpenStreetMap contributor can be seen now too. To be more specific, you get the following numbers:
- ChangeSets == Overall amount of your ChangeSets
- Changes == Overall amount of your changes within your ChangeSets
- First ChangeSet == Date of your first ChangeSet
- Last ChangeSet == Date of your last ChangeSet
You can make this information visible by clicking the “more“-link (2)! In the following picture below you can see the new add-on:
Notice that the date that is shown in the ChangeSet-information field (see image above) is always the same as the date that is being displayed underneath the “Your last Node … “-image (3). Check it out here: http://hdyc.neis-one.org
[…] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Pascal Neis, OSM Blogs. OSM Blogs said: ChangeSets in HDYC: Last weekend I added some information to “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap ?“. The “… http://bit.ly/gkxkDS […]
Actually, I see that the date of my last node differs from the date of my last changeset. The date of my last changeset does match the date of the planet file that was used (which is what your image rings), but then if I stopped contributing to OSM for a bit then I’d expect that the date of my last changeset to be earlier than the date of the planet file that you last used to generate the HDYC pages.
My page can be seen at:
http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Gregory%20Williams
Hi Gregory,
Thanks for noticing this issue. The problem seems to be that I used the latest planet & changefile dumps from here: http://planet.openstreetmap.org/
I suppose that the starting times of each dump are not the same. Therefore it seems that the changeset dump starts a while after the planet database dump. Thus the changeset dump could contain some “newer objects” then the planet dump. Can anyone confirm this?
Here is exactly the type of article I am seeking. Trustworthy info is difficult to come across these days, so as a person who loves to read before they move forward it’s incredibly helpful that a lot of writers such as yourself put this stuff out there, available for the rest of us. Take care!