On 23 March 2010 17:44, Apollinaris Schoell <ascho...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know. at least it could delay things a bit.
You'd then have to keep tabs on multiple accounts, not that reverting wouldn't potentially cause the same problem but it would take the abuser longer to figure this out. > how? as soon as multiple edits on a object are done a revert tool must know > which versions of which tag to reset too. Another user could have done a > useful edit in between. You need to do it as soon as possible to limit other people from updating things, you could track the minutely change files... > I try to write tools to do it without creating more damage but this is really > tricky. the programming part is really the simplest of it. Others have already written revert tools, I wouldn't suggest writing any more... > To be really sure to revert things I'd need to go back analyze all his edits > and the to see them all reverted the next day. this is way beyond the time I > can spend. Others have already done this, why reinvent the wheel? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
