[Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

[Craig Wallace]

On 2013-08-05 12:20, David Woolley wrote:
> An off list exchange suggests the problem could have been caused by
> someone trying to declutter a map for private use without realising they
> were making public changes.  However, the problem still remains of how
> to get it reverted, other than by piecemeal repair, whilst only using my
> OSM identity.

You can revert it yourself, using the JOSM reverter plugin.
If the objects haven't been edited since, then it should be easy to 
revert it completely. It gets trickier if there have been subsequent 
edits, so best to avoid trying piecemeal repairs.

Or use the revert scripts.
Some details here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Change_rollback

Craig