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

[Etienne]

Perhaps a warning is needed in JOSM when ways get so long; at least until
bug 214 is fixed.  Maybe even then we should be careful of very long ways.
They are not easy to manage because it can be hard to download the whole
extent of the way, and if they are not contiguous it may not even be obvious
where the rest of the way is.

Imi, it would be useful to have JOSM give the option to just download the
rest of a way when it gives the message "Warning: this way is incomplete,
try to download it before adding segments".  I mean, it should download just
the rest of the nodes and segments that belong to this way.

Etienne


On 8/1/06, Wollschaf <mith at uni.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:33:05 +0100, Etienne wrote:
>
> > It would be worth putting this solution on the wiki somewhere so that
> the
> > next person to do this (probably me) can refer to it.
>
> In a worst-case scenario, the osm data file will be lost or not saved at
> all. Happened to me once, while moving some points around - I just did not
> notice that I had also selected a way. The segments belonging to the way
> were (because of bug 214) not completely selected, so I moved 500
> segments around while the others remained where they belong. Took me a lot
> of work to get them back in order, as I realized my mistake much too late
> (after closing JOSM).
>
> I hope that (public) server-side revision control is implemented soon.
>
>
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