[Talk-GB] Revert a changeset?

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 11:58:18 UTC 2022


On 3/8/22 08:07, 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) - 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
>
No point in waiting with a 3 month old error...and an inactive mapper...

Keep it simple: change it back and then leave a comment on the changeset 
- welcome them to OSM and let them know that you have changed it back, 
ask if they wanted to map trees here?





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