[Tagging] Dispute concerning shrimp pond dikes

[Martin Vonwald]

Try pressing CRTL+Shift+T. Does that open the reverter dialog?



2013/1/22 doug brown <dougcb68 at hotmail.com>

>  Thanks all for the feedback you have provided on the tags for the shrimp
> pond dikes.  I hope to be able to implement many of these changes soon, but
> I have not been successful in using the JOSM Reverter plugin.  The OSM Wiki
> states:
>
> "After installing the plugin and restarting JOSM, you should find a new
> menu item History -> Revert changeset."
>
> I have updated to the latest JOSM version (version 5608) and downloaded
> the plugin and restarted JOSM multiple times, but no History menu item
> appears.  Subsequent attempts to download the reverter plugin yield a
> message that all plugins are up to date.
>
> I'm out of ideas on how to proceed.  Does anybody have any advice?
>
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> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:32:47 +0100
> From: A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com
> To: tagging at openstreetmap.org
> CC: dougcb68 at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Dispute concerning shrimp pond dikes
>
>
> As I have not received my copy of this, I resend. Sorry for possible
> duplicates.
>
> 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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