[Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Months-old vandalism needs to be taken care of

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Nathan,
>
> Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, could someone please help me revert? I lack the coding skills
>> to do the automated part, but can do the resulting cleanup.
>
> If you can try to give a slightly more algorithmic description of what you
> want to revert that would be helpful. I can't really work with "everything
> by user blah except the I-something but including the interchanges". I need
> something like "all edits made by user blah", or "by user blah in this
> bounding box" or "by user blah in this time range" or "except way ID
> so-and-so".
>
> Maybe I should revert all his edits and then you use the Potlatch undelete
> feature to bring back that which you want to keep?

Exactly :)

I wrote:
>If someone is willing to do an automated revert and list objects that
>have been edited since, I'll clean those up. Then I'll do what I can
>to restore the correct roads with undeletion.