[OSM-talk] Question on undelete/restore

[Paul Hartmann]

On 11/19/2012 09:10 PM, Michael Krämer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> using OSM inspector's coastline view I came across a rather large
> missing segement of the coastline. It turned out that a new user has
> accidentially deleted it. He agreed to revert the change and I
> volunteered to take care of it.
>
> As it turns out the changeset (13910261) included more changes to roads
> etc.- 92 ways overall - so reverting would include more than just the
> coastline. To make things even worse there are also some following,
> conflicting changesets. So using the reverter plugin causes quite a
> number of conflicts that I have a hard time to resolve. But just to make
> sure I have contacted the user again because it sounded like he wouldn't
> mind to revert all changs. But the answer is still pending due to
> different time zones.
>
> So I tried to only undelete the way for the coastline using the
> "undelete" plugin. Trying to do so gives an error on upload as the way
> references deleted nodes. Sounds reasonable but doesn't really help.
>
> Any suggestion how to best get this fixed again?

Have you tried Undelete plugin and then File > 'upload selection' just 
for the coastline way?

Paul