[Talk-gb-westmidlands] How to view Deleted items

[jonathan]

Excellent Andy, thanks again.  I'll follow up on those ideas.

Jonathan

http://bigfatfrog67.me

On 12/02/2014 13:12, SomeoneElse wrote:
> jonathan wrote:
>> Thanks Andy that looks great but still doesn't tell me how the 
>> deleted ways were tagged?
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>
> No - osmhv doesn't show previous tags of deletions, but it's useful 
> for showing where things have been deleted (or moved) from.
>
> Potlatch 1 is one place that you could go if you want to browse around 
> and see how things were tagged:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch#map=18/53.02185/-2.17857 
>
>
> That shows a hotch-potch of stuff there (the last geometry before 
> deletion, which may not be the last geometry before this user's first 
> edit).
>
> Another option might be to use JOSM's reverter plugin, but not 
> actually upload the results - that'll show the geometry before that 
> changeset within JOSM.
>
> Looking at what was there it may be worth asking the mapper whether 
> they deleted the buildings because they've been knocked down and the 
> area's being redeveloped, or because they made a mistake editing it, 
> or what was there wasn't very accurate and they're starting from a 
> clean sheet, or something else.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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