[OSM-talk] Undo edit error / vandalism?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Thomas Stets wrote:

> The Mittellandkanal at Wolfsburg seems to have been edited, destroying
> the course of the canal for several kilometers.
> ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/? 
> lat=52.4478&lon=10.9124&zoom=13&layers=0BF )
>
> Is it possible to undo such edits, or does it have to be redrawn?

Potlatch in theory now has a facility allowing users to revert to  
previous versions of a way, or restore a deleted way.

However, it is not yet enabled on the OSM server because I'm awaiting  
peer review of the code, which no-one appears to have taken up. :(

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2007-November/ 
007919.html for details.

cheers
Richard