[OSM-newbies] Information about deleted items

[David ``Smith'']

On Jul 31, 2012 11:18 AM, "doug brown" <dougcb68 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have spent several tens of hours digitizing the location of shrimp
ponds near my home in Mexico using JOSM and BING Images.  Recently I opened
Open Street Map to find that all of these features have been deleted.  This
leads me to pose two questions:
>
> 1) How can I find out who delete these features so that I can inquire as
to why they took this action?

On the website, find the page that lists your edits, then click on the
changeset where you added the features.  The page for the changeset will
list nodes, ways, and relations that were modified by that changeset. I
assume the features you are interested in were ways, so look at the list of
ways and click on one. (If it's since been deleted, it will only have an
id# and version; if you created it, it will say version 1.)  The page for
that way will say it's been deleted, and list the user and changeset which
deleted it.  If you want to see the tags it once had, click the history
link for the way.

> 2) How can I retrieve these data which I need for purposes of my own,
even if it is determined that they are not appropriate for OSM?

Potlatch 1 has an undelete feature you may find useful, though I don't know
if it still works.  That's probably the only easy way to recover the
geometry of your features.
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