On 25/08/15 15:10, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> Because 'it's easier to delete and start >> > again' is encouraged rather than 'preserve the history of development' >> > where someone HAS already spent the time doing that in the past so much >> > is being lost! > > can you expand on this? Where are people encouraged to delete rather than > refine? I've always thought we would actually be encouraging people to retain > history
We encourage new users to use iD ... The first button on the tool pallet when you click on a line is 'Delete' and there are not covering notes in the learnOSM guide to suggest that it should only be used when necessary. Actually the getting started guide just ploughs straight in to adding stuff without any reference to the etiquette of modifying what is there already. http://learnosm.org/en/ Beginners Guide on the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide is even lighter on guidelines ... Editing Standards page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editing_Standards_and_Conventions only has a 'If you choose to delete and redraw a whole road, check that the nodes don't themselves have tag' which should perhaps be a 'please do not delete a whole road as previous information will be lost'. Checking in the help forum many of the questions that as 'why can't I delete xxx' make no mention of why that should be a last resort. https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/41329/cant-edit-or-delete-street is a typical example but there was no mention on NOT deleting it. Actually I have yet to find ANY advise that advises simply refining what is there? ( And I'm still trying to track down the history of the Tollbar A46 route changes. Not sure if some if the history was redacted but I'm sure that these main roads were present ten years back. ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
