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Is it possible to view changesets in readable form?

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For example this one: https://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/18226984

Default format is for me completely unreadable, is there any alternative?

Is there something that is to default diff viewer as is http://owl.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ to default history tab?

asked 07 Oct '13, 19:10

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edited 07 Oct '13, 19:11


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There are a bunch of options described here. It's likely that some of these will go some way to showing what you want - I find Whodidit here or here and ITO's tools particularly useful.

It's difficult to "display a changset on the map" when a third dimension to represent time is what is really required. There would need to be some way to "view" changes to the tags on nodes or ways, or to their positions, or to indicate that something has been deleted - as a mapper wanting to see what a changeset has changed, how would you like that information to be represented?

answered 07 Oct '13, 19:33

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