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Table 1 Number of versions and unique IDs in a typical OpenStreetMap full history planet file

From: OSHDB: a framework for spatio-temporal analysis of OpenStreetMap history data

OSM element Versions Unique IDs \(\varnothing {}\)
Nodes 7 326 018 355 5 540 766 395 1.32
Ways 1 002 978 129 596 015 042 1.68
Relations 25 767 100 7 796 460 3.30
  1. Column \(\varnothing {}\) contains the average number of versions per unique ID for each of the OSM element types. These numbers have been calculated for the OSM full history planet file history-181112.osm.pbf, downloaded from https://planet.openstreetmap.org, accessed 2018-11-19
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