On Wednesday 15 July 2009 16:36:36 Russ Nelson wrote: > On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yann Coupin wrote: > >> I completely agree with Pieren here. Unless you're part of the happy > >> fews, if case of vandalism/error, you're forced to painstakingly > >> repair by hand the problems > > > > That is true, but we also have to look at the potential for problems. > > > > ("If everyone had a gun, it would be much easier for everyone to > > defend > > themselves, and the streets would thus become much safer for > > everyone." > > - Can you spot the problem?) > > No, in fact, I can't, because you're using the wrong analogy. Try this > one: "If only police and criminals have guns, it is much easier for > everyone to defend themselves, because when a criminal is threatening > you with his gun, you just call a policeman, wait for him to arrive, > and he uses his gun." The gun analogy is a very bad one whichever way you use it. In the real world there is no undo/revert. Philosophical nitpicking aside we can undo/revert things in the data so there is no real risk involved unlike the physical world. Having very powerful tools on either side will do more good than bad. > > > If we make these things too easy, then they will get abused. > > Do you realize that you're also making this argument: > "If we make map editing too easy, then abusers will edit the map, thus > we must put horrible user interfaces in place to make it harder to > edit." One might argue that this has already happened. :) (just > teasing!) > > > Also, it is quite a challenge technically as well. A good revert > > system > > would have to visualise what it is about to revert, > > Fair enough! Perhaps a revert should be couched in terms of a .OSM > file which you load into JOSM, and then preview? If you like what you > see fixed, then you hit the upload button. If there are conflicts, > well, then there are conflicts and you deal with them as any other > edit conflict. Agreed. Ordinary mappers like me need an easy way to download the deleted objects so they show up in Josm (or other).
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