[OSM-talk] how to remove objects from the database ?

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 7 March 2010 20:59, François Van Der Biest
<francois.vanderbiest at camptocamp.com> > Last year, we (= some french
osmers) imported some data around Brest
> city (see for instance http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/BMO).
> Unfortunately, the source shapefiles were badly converted to WGS84,
> and this resulted in a shift of several meters for all data. Thus, we
> need to delete previously imported data (identified by the source tag)
> and reimport.

Please download the data and just shift any nodes that haven't been
moved from the original location, instead of deleting and creating new
objects shifted by a coupld of meters.

This really isn't difficult with basic python.

Cheers