[josm-dev] Another 66 relations bite the dust

[Richard Fairhurst]

I received a friendly reply from the mapper in question, who said:

> I think the problem was caused because as I going through the process
> of adding a new road, I had assumed that the relations shown in the
> JOSM editor were being applied to the new road. However, as the road
> was not part of NCN route 74, I deleted the data. Clearly, I
> shouldn't have done this and I'm very sorry for the problems I have
> now caused.

I can sort of see where he's coming from. So, again, it's (as so often 
with OSM) probably more a problem of documentation and UI than anything 
else... which I think really emphasises Sebastian's point about "it 
shouldn't hurt to add some heuristics that detect unusual pattern (like 
deleting a whole bunch of large relations) and give a second warning 
before upload".

I see your point, Dirk, about annoying users with useless warnings, but 
you can usually get round this either with a "Don't show this again" 
check-box, or by providing an advanced pref to disable the warning.

Thanks for all the helpful replies. :)

cheers
Richard