[Talk-GB] Revert a changeset?

[Robert Skedgell]

On 02/08/2022 23:07, Steven Hirschorn wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Embarrassingly enough, despite monitoring changes across my local area 
> with OSMCha, I didn't notice that three months ago someone changed a way 
> from highway=residential to natural=tree_row. It would just need a 
> revert, but the wiki instructions suggest contacting the user first, and 
> I haven't reverted a changeset before. However, it's their first edit 
> and they haven't touched anything since. What might be the legitimate 
> tag to record what they were trying to record?
> 
> There's Mapillary imagery of the road 
> (https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=474793846962997 
> <https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=474793846962997>) - I don't know if 
> street trees would normally qualify as a tree_row, and it probably 
> shouldn't be the same way as the highway?
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/304118944/history 
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/304118944/history>
> 

Perhaps they were trying to tag it with tree_lined=yes, although that 
seems a bit generous given the Mapillary image.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tree_lined

Alternatively, as it was a new user using iD, perhaps they meant to draw 
the natural=tree_row parallel to the road?

Rather than reverting, you could just restore the correct tags to the 
highway ASAP (as it will break routing) and add the tree row on the 
appropriate side.