[OSM-talk] Fwd: Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the licensechangeis going to do to the map)

[john at jfeldredge.com]

Since the OSM changes are stored in a database, if the database log stores records of changes, normal procedures for rolling back changes would have included rolling back the deletions.  So, either someone used the database rollback but didn't select the full range of actions to be rolled back; or else, someone manually deleted the nodes instead of using the built-in rollback action.

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Subject :Fwd: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the licensechangeis going to do to the map)
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Date  :Thu Feb 10 08:09:23 America/Chicago 2011


Seriously?  It's this kind of "logic" that is why OSMF is doomed.

I explained twice what happened.

If they deleted everything I had ever touched, rather than reverting
it, the destruction would have been far, far, far, far, far, far
worse.

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My guess would be that, rather than using a database rollback to
reverse the edits, someone tried to undo them manually by deleting
every object he has touched.

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From  :mailto:mdeen at xs4all.nl
Date  :Thu Feb 10 07:52:42 America/Chicago 2011

 So, his edits were deleted by the OSM board? Why?
 And if not only his edits were deleted, but all nodes and ways he
 touched were deleted, why? Why not his edits reverted to the previous
 state?


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