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Is there a way to query the user id given a certain user display name? What about the other way around? The display name can be changed any time, so the id seem to be the better solution to identify an account. Is it possible to link to the user page by id? (Something like http://www.openstreetmap.org/user?id=xxxx) |
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You can't link by id (as Gnonthgol says), but if you want to find an id from a given display name, go to that user's edits page, select a changeset from the list, then view the Changeset XML to find the uid. |
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Yes an UID is better. On Odbl here, they might as well have cumulated the merits for the same UID !!! |
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The API has supported a call with the UID as argument for quite a while now. The call returns user information including the user name: http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/user/the_uid This will naturally only give you the current mapping uid->user name and not historic ones. Can't open the link?
(27 Jun '15, 01:37)
marla729
Marla729 Try this :- https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/marla729
(27 Jun '15, 07:05)
BCNorwich
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Do bear in mind that user names can change. If you want to do a search (by current or by historical name or by ID) you can use http://whosthat.osmz.ru . |
Is there anything new on that topic. Is it still impossible to get a user name from its uid?
See new answer from me below.