Re: [talk-au] How to undo saved edits?

2010-02-03 Thread Liz
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Arie Paap wrote: However Potlatch exposes deleted ways: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch/Primer#Undoing_mistakes So I use that to undelete the way and then continue editing (or switch back to JOSM) very good point I'm glad you raised this. This area really

Re: [talk-au] How to undo saved edits?

2010-02-03 Thread John Smith
On 3 February 2010 19:29, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: Often newbies spend a lot of time putting in something and need a quick pick- me-up help so they don't get totally discouraged when all their hard work has been wasted. Maybe there should be a tutorial mode added to potlatch, with some

[talk-au] How to undo saved edits?

2010-02-02 Thread John Henderson
The thread on unintentional damage is timely. I find I may have deleted a way. I was cleaning up duplicated ways, and may have deleted too much in JOSM and then saved the result. I suspect that the gap in the foot track at this location might be my doing:

Re: [talk-au] How to undo saved edits?

2010-02-02 Thread Arie Paap
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:32 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: The thread on unintentional damage is timely. I find I may have deleted a way. I was cleaning up duplicated ways, and may have deleted too much in JOSM and then saved the result. I suspect that the gap in the foot track

Re: [talk-au] How to undo saved edits?

2010-02-02 Thread John Henderson
Arie Paap wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:32 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: The thread on unintentional damage is timely. I find I may have deleted a way. I was cleaning up duplicated ways, and may have deleted too much in JOSM and then saved the result. I suspect that the gap

Re: [talk-au] How to undo saved edits?

2010-02-02 Thread John Smith
On 3 February 2010 16:45, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: I just tread very carefully in JOSM, tentatively deleting ways to see if there's another underneath, and restoring needed things again with ctrl-Z. You don't need to delete something to see if there is a way underneath, just select

Re: [talk-au] How to undo saved edits?

2010-02-02 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: You don't need to delete something to see if there is a way underneath, just select the mid point and shift it on the top way, then hit ctrl+z if you need to undo the point creation/removal. An excellent point, and a much neater way of managing things. I've finished