[OSM-talk] Argh! Just deleted lots from OSM by mistake

[Etienne]

In principle I think you would need to remove the action='delete' attributes
and change the ids of all the deleted elements (and any references to them)
from positive to negative.

Try it on a very small test file first.

Good luck.

On 8/1/06, matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk <
matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:07:00AM +0100,
> matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:29:25AM +0100, Etienne wrote:
> > > If you have the mini.osm file then the situation should be
> recoverable.
> >
> > I wondered about loading the original "1" into josm, then downloading
> the
> > affected areas, and then merging the conflicts correctly, and uploading.
> Maybe
> > that is the easiest way to fix this?
>
> OK, this doesn't work... there are no conflicts.
>
> Do you know how I can manipulate the bad data into "undo delete"
> operations and
> reinsert the data? (Of course, I don't want to create duplicate data if
> possible, which I have had before and it's a pain to detect.)
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Matthew
>
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