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Questions

  1. Does OSM track the last time a user made an diary entry?
  2. Does the last map edit timestamp on a user’s profile indicate only the edits made to maps or diaries and notes as well?
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Discussion

Comment from Marcos Dione on 15 July 2025 at 09:13

The data is present in the system because, with access to the DB, finding the date of the last diary entry should be fairly easy to do.

This doesn’t mean that there is any code (and from a cursory search I would there is none) that allows to fetch such data.

For it’s name, “last map edit timestamp”, and your particular profile page, osm.org/user/HazelCyril, (“June 11, 2025” vs “14 July 2025”) it only tracks map edits.

Comment from TrickyFoxy on 20 July 2025 at 09:26

The latest diary entry can be seen in your profile or on your diary page osm.org/user/HazelCyril/diary

The exact time is available in the RSS feed file: osm.org/user/HazelCyril/diary/rss

Comment from UrbanRoaming on 20 July 2025 at 17:57

There’s also an RSS feed for edits:

osm.org/user/UrbanRoaming/history/feed

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