[Talk-us] Deletion rampage by a certain user

[Dale Puch]

Can the tools filter selected items from a change set when performing
undelete?  IE. only undelete stuff from Clay?
If not is there a reasonable way to export the changeset and manually
review then re-upload as new or undeleted items?

Sorry not familiar with the details of doing an changeset restore/undelete.

Dale

Dale Puch

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 05/19/2015 12:51 AM, Clay Smalley wrote:
> > Last winter, I drove around a bunch of neighborhoods with my GPS and
> > manually added them into OSM. I wanted to add a few more neighborhoods
> > today, so I opened up OSM and went to that area, and a significant chunk
> > of my additions were mysteriously deleted.
>
> At first glance it really looks as if the user did nothing more than
> random deletions across the country. I wonder why it hasn't been noticed
> before.
>
> Then again, many of the objects he deleted are ones he had created
> himself - perhaps he did that with the good intention the clean up after
> having been told that copying from Google is not allowed. Perhaps your
> stuff was accidentally deleted with his own?
>
> > I sent him a message about it, and he hasn't responded. This is pretty
> > frustrating. What can I do about this?
>
> We can easily undelete things, however we'd have to make sure we
> identify the right changesets to undo, else we might re-create things
> copied from Google! It appears to me that simply undeleting all objects
> deleted in your list of changesets would have this undesirable effect.
>
> Also there's a slight danger of bringing stuff back that was deleted 2
> months ago and someone else has meanwhile drawn the missing bit again,
> which would lead to duplicates.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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