Steve Dobson wrote:
I think it would be much better if he didn't keep deleting ways when
> he wants to alter them and instead altered the existing way, to avoid
> creating all these unconnected roads (and also make it easier to see
> the history of the way).
Even though I'm a relative newbie to OSM (& and very much to this list)
I think that this kind of activity needs to be discouraged.
I think this is highlighting the need for an improvement being discussed on the
main talk list ...
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/new_id]
It is interesting looking at the history for some changes and seeing what
'collateral damage' is being done to additional information by people who have
yet to fully get up to speed with all the finer points of editing. At least the
addition of a tag which links the deleted or earlier related material would
allow others to backtrack and 'repair the damage', perhaps we need a merge tool
so that tags from the older id's can be restored to the new one? Whilst scanning
history I've noticed many places where items HAVE been deleted and replaced with
in essence the same item, but with things like disability access lost.
Personally I would prefer to see 'delete' removed altogether, and replaced with
'end_date', since in many cases the historic information IS as important as the
current view. Current map rendering simply ignores anything with an end_date
older than today, but we can still render maps for previous time frames :)
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