[talk-au] How to undo saved edits?

[Liz]

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Arie Paap wrote:
> 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)
> 

very good point
> 
> 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=B000
> FTF The Muirs Highway has been duplicated (and upgraded to trunk which also
>  doesn't seem right to me).
> 
> Arie
> 
It seems to be duplicated, but I have no idea about its trunk / not trunk 
status
Often newbies spend a lot of time putting in something and need a quick pick-
me-up help so they don't get totally discouraged when all their hard work has 
been wasted.