Also, if a particular user's changes are going to be rolled back, this needs to include not only undoing things they added or changed but also undoing deletions.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] collateral damage (was: What the license change isgoing to do to the map) >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Thu Feb 10 07:28:23 America/Chicago 2011 On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's what happened. Grand plaza was mapped as one single building. > I deleted that one building in order to map it as 3 separate > buildings, because that's essentially what it is (3 buildings, with a > shared roof/awning/whatever). So when the reversion took place, the 3 > buildings were deleted completely). Basically, the same thing that happened with Ehrlich Road, which was a single road which I deleted to change into a dual carriageway. This kind of stuff is going to happen constantly once you start mass-deleting tens of thousands of accounts. That's why the deletion strategy needs to be set long long long before people are required to decide whether or not to approve the switch. This is something I've been saying for a long time, but I'm glad it has finally been shown rather than just said. The deletion of one single user who didn't even edit that much, cascades through an entire map (some of which has been fixed, but y'all have a *lot* more to go). Maybe the 1,500 year plan is the way to go. It could always be sped up as y'all get better at cleaning up from the big mess you're making. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
