Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Most of Busselton deleted

2010-02-02 Thread Arie Paap
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Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Most of Busselton deleted

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Colless
This could have been an accident, not malicious damage. When I was editing streets in my home suburb, mainly just adding in street names, I needed to cut a street at a node because it changes its name. Somewhere along the way, the street disappeared. When I edited it (using Potlatch), the

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Most of Busselton deleted

2010-02-02 Thread David Murn
Something similar happened in my region recently, someone new to josm managed to turn a park around 100m across into a 2km diameter circle, and mangled the ways nearby. A quick email to the user revealed he was new to josm and wasnt even aware of what he had done. Fortunately the mess was easily

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Most of Busselton deleted

2010-02-02 Thread Arie Paap
I have also sent a message to the user regarding what happened and some links to help on editing. In this particular case a large number of ways were deleted (as you can see from the changeset) and reverting seemed to me the best way to fix up the damage to the map. Arie On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at