`osmchangesets2csv`: changeset dumps as CSV

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I’ve made a new tool to convert the changeset dump file to a CSV file: osmchangesets2csv

It might be useful to others. :slightly_smiling_face::woman_technologist:t2:

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Nice ! 30’ is already quite fast. Do you have an estimate of the csv file size?

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Do you have an estimate of the csv file size?

With the default columns, it’s 4.4 GiB gzipp’ed, and 21 GiB uncompressed.

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Contributors often express the desire to follow current changesets in their area. If the objective is to provide access to this metadata to more contributors, one good option would be to also provide a file for shorter periods. Individual files could cover monthly periods for the last year edits. A smaller file size would let people analyze the data with various tools including a spreadsheet.

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If the objective is to provide access to this metadata to
more contributors, one good option would be to also provide a file for
shorter periods. Individual files could cover monthly periods for the
last year edits.

This tool is just for parsing files. Someone can use it to generate files like you suggest. I don’t want to get into the business of hosting files like this.