On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Bob Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: > I note that in certain situations the previous history of an element is > lost. For example, I split a way in order to add different maximum speeds. > Now I become the originator of those split ways and what previous history > that existed is lost. I understand that I have, in essence, created new > ways by splitting, yet all other attributes and history of the original > way are unaffected. Is it not possible to identify that such new ways are > not wholly new data (even though the Versions are given as 1) so that users > are properly informed? Even better would be that the previous history is > archived for reference in some way.
This is a question about how editors are implementing merge/split. See: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2009-March/002754.html Pieren _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
