[OSM-talk] JOSM: tag-renaming for multiple nodes/ways "broken"

[Shaun McDonald]

You shouldn't be doing mass changes in data, unless you are absolutely  
certain of what you are doing.

Shaun
On 13 Sep 2008, at 14:48, Stefan Neufeind wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in the past I'm quite sure that e.g. in case multiple nodes had tags
> "amenityyy" (with spelling-error) you could simply select them all at
> one and rename to "amenity". JOSM showed the values as "<different>"
> during editing, but surely kept the original values after clicking  
> okay.
>
> However that is not the case anymore. You get <different> when  
> editing,
> and the individual values are removed from all nodes, thus resulting  
> in
> "<different>" being the new value. That effectively destroys data in  
> the
> database :-(
>
> Not sure how many data is already affected.
>
> Maybe somebody knows what caused this and could come up with a quick- 
> fix?
>
>
> Regards,
>  Stefan
>
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