[OSM-talk] Trouble in Rangoon

[David Ebling]

It's time for a good revert feature... anyone got the
programming skills? Alas not me :(

Is it possible to take on old copy of planet.osm
(someone must keep backups of this?.... anyone?...)
copy the data for the affected area, and use JOSM to
merge it into the current db?

I too am not going to spend much more time
contributing to OSM unless someone comes up with a
solution to this. As I said, I simply don't have the
skills to do it myself, but the prospect of someone (a
commercial map company getting worried for example)
coming along and wiping out entire cities, countries,
or even the world, makes me feel the investment of
time is at risk.

Dave

>The area is pretty obvious when you view the
location.
>
>http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=16.796&lon=96.1546&zoom=13&layers=B0FT
>... what should be a fairly complex city, is an empty
>space covering  
>several square kilometers.
>As I remember, there were many hundreds of ways, so
>undeleting would  
>be an impractical and haphazard approach, even if I
>could get it to  
>work (which I can't!). I don't know what is supposed
>to happen when  
>pressing 'U'. Potlatch seems to start fetching data
>from OSM but  
>nothing ever displays for me.

>The time of 'disappearance' is less certain. I am
sure >it's in the  
>last month, probably the last fortnight, but closer
>than that, I can't say.
>
>I certainly hope there is a way of retrieving this
>lost data - makes  
>me nervous about investing substantial time and
effort >into creating  
>ways that can be 'blown away' like this.
>
>Andrew Harris
>37.7638?S 144.9411?E


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