[OSM-newbies] History lost following certain actions

[Pieren]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Bob Hawkins <bobhawkins at waitrose.com> wrote:
> I note that in certain situations the previous history of an element is
> lost.  For example, I split a way in order to add different maximum speeds.
> Now I become the originator of those split ways and what previous history
> that existed is lost.  I understand that I have, in essence, created new
> ways by splitting, yet all other attributes and history of the original
> way are unaffected.  Is it not possible to identify that such new ways are
> not wholly new data (even though the Versions are given as 1) so that users
> are properly informed?  Even better would be that the previous history is
> archived for reference in some way.

This is a question about how editors are implementing merge/split.
See:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2009-March/002754.html

Pieren