Since the OSM changes are stored in a database, if the database log stores records of changes, normal procedures for rolling back changes would have included rolling back the deletions. So, either someone used the database rollback but didn't select the full range of actions to be rolled back; or else, someone manually deleted the nodes instead of using the built-in rollback action.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Fwd: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the licensechangeis going to do to the map) >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Thu Feb 10 08:09:23 America/Chicago 2011 Seriously? It's this kind of "logic" that is why OSMF is doomed. I explained twice what happened. If they deleted everything I had ever touched, rather than reverting it, the destruction would have been far, far, far, far, far, far worse. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license changeis going to do to the map) To: OpenStreetMap talk mailing list <[email protected]> My guess would be that, rather than using a database rollback to reverse the edits, someone tried to undo them manually by deleting every object he has touched. -------Original Email------- Subject :[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license changeis going to do to the map) >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Thu Feb 10 07:52:42 America/Chicago 2011 So, his edits were deleted by the OSM board? Why? And if not only his edits were deleted, but all nodes and ways he touched were deleted, why? Why not his edits reverted to the previous state? _______________________________________________ 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 -- 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
