If the server were to provide the original timestamp as an additional attribute, and reject if it didn't match on upload, then problems like this could be prevented. <br><br>It would also be a proper solution to update conflicts.<br>
<br>80n<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 6, 2008 6:05 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder) <<a href="mailto:blackadderajr@googlemail.com">blackadderajr@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dave Stubbs wrote:<br>>Sent: 06 February 2008 5:58 PM<br>>To: <a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>>Subject: [OSM-talk] User umehlig and some really nasty edits<br><div class="Ih2E3d">
><br>>I don't know who/what they are, but there are a large number of low<br>>number nodes that have been utterly destroyed. Basically 522-603 and a<br>>few others in the 1000's have been moved halfway round the planet.<br>
><br>>I fixed node 1205, but it's going to be making a mess of the mapnik map.<br>>Is there an easy way to find these and revert them?<br>><br>>And can we make the server reject edits which move nodes further than<br>
>a certain distance?<br><br></div>This sounds like the problem we had before with a user changing the negative<br>ID numbers for uncreated items in JOSM, or perhaps creating their own manual<br>data and not using negative ID's. Removing the negative of course changes<br>
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