[OSM-talk] Betr.: Re: Retaggin of ways

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Wed Dec 5 22:29:10 GMT 2007


On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:16:41PM +0000, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Tony Bowden wrote:
> 
> > That said, this is one of the areas where the project suffers from
> > not having a 'revision history' feature where you can see who/when/
> > why previous changes were made, or spotting that 'corrections' have  
> > been 'recorrected' in the past. I have no idea how to implement such  
> > a thing in a sensible way, but I suspect this sort of problem is  
> > going to keep happening.
> 
> Potlatch's revert/rollback does that, kind of.

Potlatch does the best it can with the API, but the important part of
any revision history is the 'why' above, and there is currently no
server-side support for that. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta




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