Corrupted result for full history extraction of ways for specific duration

[arjunaraoc]

Bug Description

When I try to get historical info for an area using API, the resulting geojson contains corrupted line segments overwriting the actual ways and making it unusable or uneditable. This happened for several feature tags such as buildings, amenities

General Information

Please include the following general information about the issue and list any additional steps needed to reproduce the bug.

• Version of the ohsome API: 1.10.4
• remote instance: see URL below
• Affected endpoint(s) /elementsFullHistory
• URL of your request (and request body if applicable)
• Fails: http://api.ohsome.org/v1/elementsFullHistory/geometry?bboxes=80.4074%2C16.4137%2C80.6055%2C16.5743&filter=amenity%3D* and (type%3Away)&properties=tags,metadata&showMetadata=false&time=2015-01-01%2C2025-10-01
• Works:
• http://api.ohsome.org/v1/elementsFullHistory/geometry?bboxes=80.4074%2C16.4137%2C80.6055%2C16.5743&filter=amenity%3D* and (type%3Away)&properties=tags,metadata&showMetadata=false&time=2015-01-01%2C2024-04-01
• Used HTTP method: GET
• Utilized tool/library for the request: CURL

Expected Behaviour

Clean geojson with expected geometry.

Further Information

Error Messages, Logs, Screenshots

Additional Information

This feature is crucial for making time lapse edit history videos

[Hagellach37]

In fact, this was actual vandalism in OSM.

[Hagellach37]

We are moving towards ohsome API v2.0.
Hence, this topic will not be followed up on.

Feel free to raise it again if it is still relevant for the new API version.