[OSM-newbies] Locked way?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Eric Ladner wrote:

> Just saw some red ways show up on the map when I was editing with
> Potlatch.  They had a tag that said something like "Retrieved from
> v1".
>
> I did a refresh and they went away...
>
> Anybody else seen that?  What's it mean?

You probably pressed 'U', for undelete, by accident. This finds all  
the ways that have been deleted in the current area, and presents them  
to you as locked (red) ways. This is so you can recover anything  
accidentally deleted.

cheers
Richard