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

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

Tom Chance wrote:
> 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!

Can we go through the history and try to figure out what nodes have been
affected. This is potentially really serious.

Jamie

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