Richard Fairhurst wrote: >Sent: 28 February 2008 9:37 AM >To: OSM Talk >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Trouble in Rangoon > >David Ebling wrote: > >> I too am not going to spend much more time >> contributing to OSM unless someone comes up with a >> solution to this. As I said, I simply don't have the >> skills to do it myself, but the prospect of someone (a >> commercial map company getting worried for example) >> coming along and wiping out entire cities, countries, >> or even the world, makes me feel the investment of >> time is at risk. > >There's never any danger of loss of data. Any deleted ways are still >there in the database. It's just, Potlatch's undelete-one-by-one >feature aside, we don't have a _simple_ way of recovering them - but >nonetheless it's possible. > >The need for area-level revert is known and understood, we just never >have enough programmers to do all the funky things that need doing... > Indeed, though to help the original user out perhaps we can have a concerted effort to get any deleted data returned. needs someone with a bit of time to investigate properly. Have therefore copied to dev.
Thread is at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-February/thread.html#2372 1 As for improving the problem overall, I think perhaps a bounty is needed? Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
