Someone seems to have decided to answer the question about "how should we tag the National Byway" by deleting it. :(
In http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4653538 , a vast number of relations have been deleted - 66 or so. Among these are a bunch of cycle routes - the National Byway (id 9327, previously with 893 relation members), NCN route 74, the Caledonian Cycleway - plus some railway routes and the usual NAPTaN gubbins. I restored the National Byway before noticing the rest of them; now, I guess, it would be helpful to rollback the rest of the changeset. The user has done lots of really good edits so I'm 100% sure that this isn't vandalism. The created_by is JOSM 1.5 (3094 en). This roughly echoes: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2010-March/004228.html http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2010-April/004276.html although, in this case, the relations have been deleted rather than 'blanked'. I think all of the relations in question passed through As per the first cited message, I don't want to get into an editor argument here, but I do know from bitter experience that if Potlatch let you do this without realising, there would have been people screaming for my head for months now. Deleting a relation with 900ish members is almost always going to be an error. Obviously we don't yet know what's happened here, but I think we can safely assume that the user wasn't presented with a dialogue reading "Are you really really sure you want to delete an entire chuffing cycle route along 900 roads?" and a button "HELL YES!". Could I entreat the JOSM developers to put some serious effort into identifying and fixing this at the very earliest opportunity? cheers Richard _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
