[OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

[Roland Olbricht]

> What I deeply regret is that OSM website still
> does not offer to everyone, including newcomers, a fast and easy way
> to revert an edit once it is saved.

Work is under way. Please stay tuned an have an eye on the workshop
"The geometry and data of change" at the SOTM.

In more detail: As opposed to wikipedia, a typical edit usually gets
non-trivally interdependend both with other edits as well as the
different parts of an edit to each other.

So a revert function that just reverts entire changesets unless they
have other dependencies is of limited use, because most changesets that
do significant harm get quickly interdepend on those changes intended
to repair the harm.

You can argue that more people would do wholesale reverts instead of
repairing if they were easier, but a lot of the interesting cases have
changesets that mix damage and merit.

Cheers,

Roland