On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:58:43 +0200, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Even worse situation can occur, if somebody accidently shuffles bigger amount of nodes. It can happen in JOSM very easily, and could be hard to notice by other users. > Hi, > > we just had the unfortunate situation that someone managed to delete > roughly 80.000 nodes by loading a file into JOSM, hitting Ctrl-A and > Ctrl-Shift-Y (simplify) and uploading the results. > > I'm baffled that JOSM would even process that amount of data, it must be > quite a powerful tool after all ;-) > > Anyway, I have now modified the UtilsPlugin to ask "are you sure" > whenever you try to simplify more than 10 ways at once! > > With our growing user base, we should keep in mind that we have a > certain responsibility to protect OSM from mistakes such as this, or at > least we should make an attempt to. I'm totally against *prohibiting* > any kind of edit, but in some cases it might make sense to actually > provide better feedback so that the user knows what he's doing. > > Bye > Frederik > -- Petr Dlouhý _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev