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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">doug brown wrote:<br>
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<div>1) How can I find out who delete these features so that I
can inquire as to why they took this action? and,</div>
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The easist way is to start with either the area from which they've
disappeared or the changeset from which they were added or deleted.<br>
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I'll use some data that I added that has since been (legitimately)
deleted as an example. The way that was deleted was this one:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/32395636/history">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/32395636/history</a><br>
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The list of my changesets is<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/edits">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/edits</a><br>
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I can scroll back through those until I get back to the one
cotaining the edits that I'm looking for. In your case that would
be one with a comment of "Digitize Shrimp Ponds" or similar.<br>
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I'll use this changeset of mine as an example:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4198254">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4198254</a><br>
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Against the changeet you have an option to "View area on larger
map", and you can then zoom in to where the data has disappeared
from.<br>
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in my example that would be:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.918954&lon=-1.035148&zoom=21">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.918954&lon=-1.035148&zoom=21</a><br>
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Then, click the little arrow to the right of "edit" and select
"Potlatch 1". Then click "Edit with save".<br>
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There's a button at the bottom of the screen labelled "advanced".
Click and hold down the mouse button on it, go up to "undelete", and
release the button.<br>
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Some new dark red ways should reappear, corresponding to the ways
that you added and someone else deleted. Click on one of the ways.
At the bottom left Potlatch 1 will show "Way" and a number below
it. Click on the number, then click on "More" on the prompt that
appears.<br>
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In my example I clicked on way 32395636, so I know see:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/32395636">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/32395636</a><br>
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Click on "view history". I can now see that I last edited it on
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 and someone deleted it (entirely legitimately!) on
Tue, 08 May 2012, and I can see the changeset comment (in my case
"Cotgrave Country Park changes") and who actually deleted it.<br>
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Make a note of these and make sure that you close the browser tabs
that you've just opened (you don't want to just flip-flop the other
user's edits - you want to discuss why they were deleted)!<br>
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In your case you'll see from the changeset comment that someone
deleted some features that you'd added as roads because he didn't
think that they were roads.<br>
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I'm guessing that he didn't message you about the deletions though
the site (because otherwise you wouldn't be asking here) - and
therefore the deletions were, even if valid, a bit rude.<br>
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If the things that he deleted really are roads then message him
through the site saying so.<br>
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If not (despite the unannounced deletion being a bit rude) they
really shouldn't have been added as roads in OSM in the first place.<br>
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Unfortunately, looking at the area concerned I can't really say what
they should have been added as (I'm totally unfamiliar with it).
Perhaps ask a question over at help.osm.org and give a bit of
description about what the features are like?<br>
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<div>> 2) How can I retrieve these data which I need for
purposes of my own, even if it is determined that they are <br>
> not appropriate for OSM?</div>
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That rather depends; what format do you want it in? As a map, or as
an OSM XML file, or something else?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Andy<br>
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