[OSM-talk] how to ensure that a deleted "tainted" way/node won't be reverted

[Pieren]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:50 AM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Last week, we found out that another user is adding back the data.
> The reason was by clicking the "U" in potlatch, the deleted roads
> appear as red lines with a lock icon.  Of course there is a tag
> showing the history:some version number.  If the user would want to
> know more why the data was deleted he/she can click  "H" to show more
> history info, but I suspect very few newbies know about this.
>
> I do love that we do not forget our own history, but is there a way to
> warn potlatch users not to revert such data?  Perhaps an additional
> tag as to why the data was deleted? This can be probably parsed from
> the changeset comments.
>
>
Perhaps the following action should be done when illegal sourced data are
removed:
- first, remove all existing tags (highway, etc) but keep a note saying that
this is an illegal import
- then commit,
- second, delete the data

Pieren
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