[talk-au] How to undo saved edits?

Arie Paap wildmyron at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 04:34:57 GMT 2010


On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:32 AM, John Henderson <snowgum at gmx.com> wrote:
> The thread on unintentional damage is timely.
>
> I find I may have deleted a way.
>
> I was cleaning up duplicated ways, and may have deleted too much in JOSM
> and then saved the result.
>
> I suspect that the gap in the foot track at this location might be my
> doing: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-32.8991&lon=116.1585&zoom=14
>
> How do I determine if there was a way there earlier in the day?
>
> And if there was, how do I restore it?

I have not found out how to do this in JOSM. However Potlatch exposes
deleted ways:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch/Primer#Undoing_mistakes
So I use that to undelete the way and then continue editing (or switch
back to JOSM)

>
> I was adding a relation to cover the Bibbulmun Track when I came across
> an area with extensive duplication of ways, which I've been fixing as I
> go along.  I've been working from south (Albany) northwards (towards Perth).
>
> I looked at the history, without it making much sense to me.  The
> changeset ID in question is 3779618.

I'm glad you raised this. This area really baffled me when I noticed
it a little while ago. I really didn't know how to resolve all the
duplication or how to approach the user in question - they have
obviously contributed a fair bit to the map but all the myid tags and
duplicated ways are odd.

As an example for the list:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.6593&lon=117.5389&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF
The Muirs Highway has been duplicated (and upgraded to trunk which
also doesn't seem right to me).

Arie

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