[Talk-GB] iD and accidental landuse deletions

[Paul Churchley]

I am very new to OSM (2 weeks!) and I have now switched to JOSM and I use
that exclusively now as it is SOOO much better. Having said that, deleting
stuff by accident is not particular to iD. I have deleted by accident with
JOSM by having something selected which I am not aware of. Fortunately I
didn't upload the changeset but it was a big heads up for me and now I am
in the habit of selecting an empty area before I do anything just to be
sure I don't have something selected unexpectedly.

iD is a nice way to get more people involved perhaps as it is easy to use
and requires no set up but perhaps it is a little too easy encouraging
people to edit before they are actually aware of the impact they can have?
Just a thought...

-
Paul Churchley
http://about.me/paulchurchley

On 7 September 2013 23:09, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:

> I've seen two new users accidentally delete residential landuse areas near
> me in the past fortnight:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/17695130
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/17505646
>
> Could this be a problem with the iD editor? Has anyone else noticed it?
>
> Tom
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