[josm-dev] Changes recorded by JOSM when changing a key

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Stefan Neufeind wrote:

> someone discovered and asked why in my changeset
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/3818805/download
>
> I had tagged various bridges as "bridge" with value "<different>".
>
> I had chosen a spelling-error via  OSMdoc (maybe it was brigde or
> something the like), corrected the key and uploaded the changed values.
> But for some reason JOSM didn't just change the key (I think it did at
> some point in the past?) but actually wrote the "<different>"-value that
> was in the edit-dialog.
>
> a) What would be the easiest way to find out which (other) changes I
> might have messed up yesterday (looking for date:yesterday,
> submitter:neufeind and "<different>" somewhere in the values) and how to
> revert those changes?

Ask Frederik Ramm. He usually helps to revert such bad errors. He will 
probably also be able to find other changesets with same error.

> b) Does somebody know if that's known problem? Is there a fix/workaround?

Now it is a fixed problem. In case you tried to change the properties, 
but actually you did not change the key there was an error that the value 
was taken as is (i.e. not properly reconstructed). Indeed a very bad 
error.

Ciao
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