[josm-dev] Simplify Way / added security question

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    we just had the unfortunate situation that someone managed to delete 
roughly 80.000 nodes by loading a file into JOSM, hitting Ctrl-A and 
Ctrl-Shift-Y (simplify) and uploading the results.

I'm baffled that JOSM would even process that amount of data, it must be 
quite a powerful tool after all ;-)

Anyway, I have now modified the UtilsPlugin to ask "are you sure" 
whenever you try to simplify more than 10 ways at once!

With our growing user base, we should keep in mind that we have a 
certain responsibility to protect OSM from mistakes such as this, or at 
least we should make an attempt to. I'm totally against *prohibiting* 
any kind of edit, but in some cases it might make sense to actually 
provide better feedback so that the user knows what he's doing.

Bye
Frederik

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