Hi,

Nevel Gandish wrote:
> I currently try to reconstruct ways from the history. Retrieving the
> ways is no problem. Retrieving nodes from the history isn't too.
> But how to put them together? Not every node has a entry for every
> entry in a ways history.
> Is figuring out by comparing the timestamps the right method or is
> there a better one?

I would suggest you download an old planet file that contained the 
"right" data and extract the data from there; this gives you a 
(relatively) consistent set of ways and matching nodes, and causes less 
strain on the API.

You cannot rely on ways and nodes having identical timestamps.

Bye
Frederik

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