[josm-dev] Better History
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Fri Mar 20 18:22:09 GMT 2009
Hi,
sometimes it is difficult to see from the history of an object what
has happened.
For example, you may look at the history of one way and it looks like
user X has deleted the way, but instead user X has merged the way with
another, existing way. (Similar for splitting ways.)
Ideally of course, the API would support such complex operations (so you
could call an API function "split way" and it would be recorded in
history as such). But this is not going to happen any time soon.
I wonder if we should make an effort to better record such things
through the existing history. For example, wehn merging two ways,
instead of just deleting one of them, should we perhaps first upload a
new version of it that has no nodes and just one tag ("note=merged with
way #1234"), and then immediately delete it afterwards? This would make
it so much clearer what happened to someone reading the history. Maybe
we could even formalise this somehow.
I know it is not strictly a JOSM issue and ideally all editors would
support this, but you have to start somewhere.
Bye
Frederik
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