Indeed that's a nice feature I've known to be unique to Potlatch. Anyway, I might have been misinformed about Potlatch being deprecated (if it was, I was trying to ask people to hurry), but since it's not, I'm not asking for it either. Instead, the issues I've pointed out (http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=24381) need attention. They've been happening since I started in OSM over one year ago, and it's been hard lately to keep up with the growing introduction of these errors as the Brazilian community has grown a lot.
Knowing that countries like the UK, Germany and Russia have a lot more edits, I'm actually puzzled: how do they manage these problems there? I only revert someone else's changeset as a last resort (when the user has really misunderstood almost everything), and these mistakes I've talked about are often part of a larger edit (where the idea of reverting does is problematic, as there's useful information in it). I know many tools (JOSM's validator, Geofabrik, KeepRight!, etc.) are able to detect problems, but none helps you quickly recover the previous state of a single broken relation along with the previous version of its members while still being consistent with the new data (some of the new ways might need to be deleted, some of their tags may need to be imported to the old ways, etc.). So relations can be broken in seconds, then people who are concerned about data integrity (particularly about the integrity of what they've previously mapped) end up spending many minutes every time such a mistake happens. And for that reason, I've been recommending against using streets as boundaries for suburbs - instead, drawing an independent way for that (which is inaccurate and should not be necessary). I've also been recommending people to use multipolygons only when extremely necessary. I shouldn't be recommending neither of the two, but I see no other way to prevent what I've pointed out. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Pieren <pier...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Fernando Trebien > <fernando.treb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I cannot use JOSM for any reason, I'm still using P2 to retrieve > the history of an object and P1 is the only one I know which is able > to find and display deleted ways. Two helpful features for data > maintenance. > > Pieren > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "The speed of computer chips doubles every 18 months." (Moore's law) "The speed of software halves every 18 months." (Gates' law) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
