[OSM-talk] Undo request button for changesets

[Shaun McDonald]

On 14 Jul 2009, at 18:13, John Smith wrote:

>
> --- On Tue, 14/7/09, Chris Hunter <chunter952 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Take a look at the history for this stretch of I-75 near
>> the TN/GA border, since I was unaware of the undo process, I
>> ended up spending 6+ hours redrawing I-75 (admittedly the
>> work needed to be done to fix TIGER, but still) because of a
>> single-keystroke mistake that the CTRL-Z undo in Potlatch
>> didn't allow me to undo.
>
> Know that feeling, I had a way with > 4000 points I was trying to  
> split and at the time JOSM and potlatch only made a mess of it  
> leaving all the nodes and no connecting way. Because I didn't know I  
> could undo a changeset I spent hours reconnecting all the nodes by  
> hand.
>
>

In that case the revert wouldn't work, because you can't save any way  
with more than 2000 nodes (even if it is part of a revert).

Shaun

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