[OSM-talk] Place names deleted (Berlin & Gothenburg)

[Tom Chance]

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 01:24:33 Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:
> Ralf Zimmermann schrieb:
> > I just found out, that at least two place names have been removed from
> > the OSM database:
> >
> > On 31-Jan, someone deleted the node that marked Gothenburg.
> > On 05-Feb, someone removed the place and name tags from the node that
> > used to mark Berlin.
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed such data being removed lately? Is there
> > something bad going on?
> >
> > If the API would show who made those changes, we could ask the person...
>
> Apparently the editing Applet on the osm page deletes attributes from
> nodes if you touch/move them.

Ahh, that would explain why the St Albans label disappeared, then. Can whoever 
is able fix this ASAP as an extra-urgent bug? There are doubtless quite a few 
nodes out there carrying useful data, and it would take a very vigilant 
maintainer to spot from the RSS feeds any that were being moved!

Regards,
Tom

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