[OSM-newbies] Reverting a changeset?

[Matthew Baxa]

That is exactly what I needed, thank you very much!

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Matthew Baxa <matthew.baxa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah I would like to get the street back.  I tried the Potlatch
>> followed your instructions, but the street change that I made does not
>> show up.
>
> Ah, I now checked and I see that you had not, as I expected first,
> removed a way, but shortened it. To undo that (again in Potlatch, I
> have no experience with JOSM):
>
> 1. Select (the remaining portion of) the road. To make that easier for
> you, you can grab it through
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=40.8134&lon=-96.6341&zoom=14&way=14151711
> 2. Press the 'H' key
> 3. There will be a pop-up, one part of which is a list of all various
> versions of that way (identified by date plus time and the user name
> of the person who edited it)
> 4. Select the version before your one (in this case one by NE2, of March 15)
> 5. Press 'Revert'
> 6. Save your edit the normal way
>