On 11/10/2019 10:44, Dave F via talk wrote:
Hi
I was in a conversation with a user who's account has since been
deleted. ... When they were, I noticed a few dubious edits that I was
planning to double check in case they required reverting/amending. Is
there a way to see them?
Via the website at OpenStreetMap.org, not easily.
The "history" list will show them, but you may have to scroll back a
long way. I wouldn't expect that to be practical.
As it stands it means those intent on vandalism could create an
account, deliberately add erroneous data, then delete leaving no
traceable record of their edits.
No, as previously mentioned there _is_ a trace of the edits, just not a
nice button that you can click to get them on osm.org.
A place to start might be things last modified by them, so try
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/N21 which will fetch items in an area last
modified by that user. If you want to search at a previous point in
time you may be able to combine that with a date search (see the
overpass pages in the OSM wiki for info).
Is this related to GDPR?
Not as far as I'm aware - this functionality predates GDPR.
Best Regards,
Andy
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