[Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre

[Bogus Zaba]

Scanning St Helens town centre this morning it seemed that a lot of ways 
making up the pedestrianised centre of town were missing. I thought this 
might be a "rendering engines not caught up with recent edits" 
phenomenon, but checking with JOSM just now I see that there are indeed 
no ways around an area centred roughly on (53.45, -2.74). A lot of 
individual nodes are there (pubs, bus-stops etc) are there but the ways 
have gone.

Although I visit St Helens every few weeks or months this is not really 
my backyard, but I am pretty sure that these ways were pretty well 
mapped last time I looked.

Cannot tell if this is somebody's mistake or vandalism, but can 
something be done to put back what has been taken away? Given that there 
is nothing there at all I cannot tell from JOSM history whether there 
was a particular chageset that caused the problem.

Some of the surrounding ways that are present have a recent changeset 
made by "OSMF Redaction Account" - is that removal of ways that do not 
conform to the new licence by any chance?

Bogus Zaba