[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: Bangladesh under the water]

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Burgess" <jburgess777 at googlemail.com>
To: "David Groom" <reviews at pacific-rim.net>
Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: Bangladesh under the water]


>
> On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 15:32 +0100, David Groom wrote:
>> >> http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/coastlines.html?zoom=8&lat=23.43505&lon=89.95194&layers=B00T
>> >>
>> >> Any ways to restore the square missing?
>> >>
>> > These are due to errors in the coastline ways. The red lines and 
>> > circles
>> > highlight the location of the errors which will need to be fixed by
>> > editing the ways.
>> >
>>
>> When I originally imported the coastline in that part of the world I 
>> fixed
>> it all.
>>
>> Unfortuntealtey it seems someone has now deleted quite a few coastline 
>> ways
>> in that area leading to an incomplete coastline, and the errors being
>> reported.
>>
>> The correct ways should I guess still be in the history , but I'm not 
>> sure
>> how to retrieve it.
>
> I've got a coastline shapefile from 2008-01-28 and that does indeed show
> that area as being nicely complete. I can see lots of disconnected nodes
> in the area now but the Potlatch 'Undelete' does not show any ways to be
> recovered.
>
> Does the upload script create a log of the way IDs and if so, do you
> have a copy still?

I used the coast_josm.pl script to create a local osm file, edited that to 
correct coastline errors, and then uploaded from within JOSM.

I may haved saved the file after upload, but I doubt it. I'll have a look 
though.

David


>
> I guess we may need to search an older planet dump (or diff files) to
> find and resurrect the ways.
>
> Jon
>
>
>