> If we follow the rule of reverting incompatible changes only 2 is > reverted to 1 (A’s scribble gets added back in). 3 is considered an > independent change. We end up with both a scribble and a neat road in > the same area. This situation likely won’t be easy to detect until > after the changes, when validators will gleefully litter the map with > warnings about overlapping ways.
That is perhaps worse than "we'll just delete/revert 5% of data". Because this revertion/deletion would cause another perhaps 20% of data (and it won't be always easy to spot them in the remaining 95%) to be left in more or less inconsistent state that would need some work to get consistent again. Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
