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.
-------Original Email------- Subject :[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license changeis going to do to the map) >From :mailto:md...@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? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk