[Tagging] Dispute concerning shrimp pond dikes

[A.Pirard.Papou]

On 2013-01-19 16:43, doug brown wrote :
> In the past couple of years I have spent several tens of hours 
> digitizing the shrimp pond dikes in San Blas Municipio, Nayarit, 
> Mexico.  They are a significant feature on the local landscape and of 
> importance because of the degradation they are causing in the mangrove 
> forest ecosystems in which they are located.
>
> I was much dismayed this past summer when all of these features were 
> deleted from the OSM data base (changeset 11807195), with the comment 
> "Deleting vandalism, those are not roads".
Beside vandalism, the world (at large), is full of people telling what 
not to do instead of what to do, which is obviously shorter. On the 
British borderline (ways), you can read the note "admin_level shouldn't 
be 4". He dared not zap them, fortunately.
> ...
>
> 2) Is there a way to roll back these changes (with modifications you 
> may suggest to the tagging scheme) so that I don't lose all of the 
> work I have invested?  If so, could you point me to some resources 
> that will teach me how this can be accomplished?
>
> On 2013-01-19 17:03, Pieren wrote :
>
>> You can do this yourself easily with JOSM (and its reverter plugin) 
>> when you know the changeset(s) number(s) (which seems to be your case). 
As I have only reverted additions before and not deletions, I gave it a try.
No panic, those JOSM guys tell you they're reverting the set but I knew 
they're only downloading the data in preparation for the real update 
(and if you tell them things like that what to do is not obvious or 
that  they are frightening, they reply that all user interface "bugs" 
are closed with a WONTFIX).
Well, it lasted almost 5 min, but I've seen your data (impressive to 
lose that, and indecent to zap !!!).
There are conflicts (differences between the locally recovered and 
present OSM data for which you must decide which is right) and there is 
quite a number of ways drawn going off the map limit, possibly a 
consequence of node deletion.
Well, just in case you will not use JOSM but you can use a .osm file, I 
saved that 1MB file and I can send it to you.  Because I love shrimps 
too ;-)

Cheers,

André.






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