Get the history of an object

Retrieves all old versions of an object from OSM.

Usage

osm_history_object(
  osm_type = c("node", "way", "relation"),
  osm_id,
  format = c("R", "xml", "json"),
  tags_in_columns = FALSE
)

Arguments

osm_type

Object type ("node", "way" or "relation").

osm_id

Object id represented by a numeric or a character value.

format

Format of the output. Can be "R" (default), "xml", or "json".

tags_in_columns

If FALSE (default), the tags of the objects are saved in a single list column tags containing a data.frame for each OSM object with the keys and values. If TRUE, add a column for each key. Ignored if format != "R".

Value

If format = "R", returns a data frame with a version of the OSM object per row. If format = "xml", returns a xml2::xml_document following the OSM_XML format. If format = "json", returns a list with a json structure following the OSM_JSON format.

See also

Other get OSM objects' functions: osm_bbox_objects(), osm_get_objects(), osm_relations_object(), osm_ways_node(), osmapi_objects()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
node <- osm_history_object(osm_type = "node", osm_id = 35308286)
node

way <- osm_history_object(osm_type = "way", osm_id = 13073736L)
way

rel <- osm_history_object(osm_type = "relation", osm_id = "40581")
rel
}