[OSM-talk] Undo request button for changesets

[Tom Hughes]

On 14/07/09 08:30, Bernhard zwischenbrugger wrote:

> Now we have the changesets like
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/1815935
>
> It's relative easy to identify bad edits.
>
> Is it possible to add an "undo request button" or "spam button" to this
> page?

What are you expecting this button to do?

If you want it to actually revert the change then the simple answer is 
that such a button probably won't appear, both because we don't want to 
make it too easy and because in general terms it won't work - reverting 
will often need manual intervention to resolve conflicts.

If you're saying that it should mail some mythical team of ninja mappers 
who will spring into action and revert the changeset then you're going 
to need to establish the team of ninja mappers first before we can add 
the button.

Anyway, to draw on Frederik's workshop at SOTM the actual revert is in 
many ways the easy part - the hard thing is establishing the authority 
to do the revert. In other words the question of who gets to decide that 
an edit is "bad" and should be reverted.

Tom

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