osm_query_changesets: Query changesets

In osmapiR: 'OpenStreetMap' API

Query changesets

Description

This is an API method for querying changesets. It supports querying by different criteria.

Usage

osm_query_changesets(
  bbox,
  user,
  time,
  time_2,
  from,
  to,
  open,
  closed,
  changeset_ids,
  order = c("newest", "oldest"),
  limit = getOption("osmapir.api_capabilities")$api$changesets["default_query_limit"],
  format = c("R", "sf", "xml", "json"),
  tags_in_columns = FALSE
)

Arguments

bbox	Find changesets within the given bounding box coordinates (⁠left,bottom,right,top⁠).
user	Find changesets by the user with the given user id (numeric) or display name (character).
time	Find changesets closed after this date and time. See details for the valid formats.
time_2	find changesets that were closed after time and created before time_2. In other words, any changesets that were open at some time during the given time range time to time_2. See details for the valid formats.
from	Find changesets created at or after this value. See details for the valid formats.
to	Find changesets created before this value. to requires from, but not vice-versa. If to is provided alone, it has no effect. See details for the valid formats.
open	If TRUE, only finds changesets that are still open but excludes changesets that are closed or have reached the element limit for a changeset (10,000 at the moment osm_capabilities()$api$changesets).
closed	If TRUE, only finds changesets that are closed or have reached the element limit.
changeset_ids	Finds changesets with the specified ids.
order	If "newest" (default), sort newest changesets first. If "oldest", reverse order.
limit	Specifies the maximum number of changesets returned. 100 as the default value.
format	Format of the output. Can be "R" (default), "sf", "xml", or "json".
tags_in_columns	If FALSE (default), the tags of the changesets are saved in a single list column tags containing a data.frame for each changeset with the keys and values. If TRUE, add a column for each key. Ignored if format != "R".

Details

Where multiple queries are given the result will be those which match all of the requirements. The contents of the returned document are the changesets and their tags. To get the full set of changes associated with a changeset, use osm_download_changeset() on each changeset ID individually.

Modification and extension of the basic queries above may be required to support rollback and other uses we find for changesets.

This call returns latest changesets matching criteria. The default ordering is newest first, but you can specify order = "oldest" to reverse the sort order (see ordered by created_at – see the current state). Reverse ordering cannot be combined with time.

Te valid formats for time, time_2, from and to parameters are POSIXt values or characters with anything that Time.parse Ruby function will parse.

Value

If format = "R", returns a data frame with one OSM changeset per row. If format = "sf", returns a sf object from sf.

format = "xml"

Returns a xml2::xml_document with the following format:

<osm version="0.6" generator="OpenStreetMap server" copyright="OpenStreetMap and contributors" attribution="http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright" license="http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/">
  <changeset id="10" created_at="2005-05-01T16:09:37Z" open="false" comments_count="1" changes_count="10" closed_at="2005-05-01T17:16:44Z" min_lat="59.9513092" min_lon="10.7719727" max_lat="59.9561501" max_lon="10.7994537" uid="24" user="Petter Reinholdtsen">
    <tag k="created_by" v="JOSM 1.61"/>
    <tag k="comment" v="Just adding some streetnames"/>
    ...
  </changeset>
  <changeset ...>
    ...
  </changeset>
</osm>

format = "json"

Please note that the JSON format has changed on August 25, 2024 with the release of openstreetmap-cgimap 2.0.0, to align it with the existing Rails format.

Returns a list with the following json structure:

{
  "version": "0.6",
  "generator": "openstreetmap-cgimap 2.0.0 (4003517 spike-08.openstreetmap.org)",
  "copyright": "OpenStreetMap and contributors",
  "attribution": "http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright",
  "license": "http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/",
  "changesets": [
    {
      "id": 10,
      "created_at": "2005-05-01T16:09:37Z",
      "open": false,
      "comments_count": 1,
      "changes_count": 10,
      "closed_at": "2005-05-01T17:16:44Z",
      "min_lat": 59.9513092,
      "min_lon": 10.7719727,
      "max_lat": 59.9561501,
      "max_lon": 10.7994537,
      "uid": 24,
      "user": "Petter Reinholdtsen",
      "tags": {
          "comment": "Just adding some streetnames",
          "created_by": "JOSM 1.61"
      }
    },
    ...
  ]
}

See Also

Other get changesets' functions: osm_download_changeset(), osm_get_changesets()

Examples

chst_ids <- osm_query_changesets(changeset_ids = c(137627129, 137625624))
chst_ids

chsts <- osm_query_changesets(
  bbox = c(-1.241112, 38.0294955, 8.4203171, 42.9186456),
  user = "Mementomoristultus",
  time = "2023-06-22T02:23:23Z",
  time_2 = "2023-06-22T00:38:20Z"
)
chsts

chsts2 <- osm_query_changesets(
  bbox = c("-9.3015367,41.8073642,-6.7339533,43.790422"),
  user = "Mementomoristultus",
  closed = TRUE
)
chsts2

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