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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Shaun McDonald wrote:
> You shouldn't be doing mass changes in data, unless you are absolutely  
> certain of what you are doing.

True, but Stefan is right, it was possible before to change a certain 
KEY for a group of objects without affecting the VALUE. If this is not 
possible anymore, then someone working on the whole autocompletion magic 
has broken it ;-)

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> 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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