Steve Dobson wrote:
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.
Playing devils advocate here - one man's 'collateral damage' is another
man's improvements. As a newbie how do I know that my edits are `good'?
One joins OSM and gets full edit rights to the database. I didn't have
to pass any tests to show that I know what I'm doing. I've just looked
at what has been none in other areas of the map and aped it.
In reality these 'improvements' ARE at the expense of more important information
as has been shown here :(
In order to retain the 'open access' policy we DO need a little more security
such as the ability to selectively roll back changes or merge back in the
background material. Some people have put a lot of effort into the finer
details, so 'delete' SHOULD be a little more difficult to action, and perhaps
REQUIRE an added comment as to why something was deleted?
The new_id tag would need to be integrated into an API process related to delete
and other actions that can result in missing information.
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