On 27/08/2015, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Back in > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015-August/073669.html I > had a look at what caused the current flurry of discussion. Part of > the line in question was deleted by a mapper new to OSM; it was their > second and last OSM edit. I find it hard to believe that this new OSM > mapper "had a thing about deleting abandoned railways". Likely they just > didn't understand something, were confused, and it somehow got deleted.
Good catch, sorry I forgot about it. I agree that http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/259134943 should not have been deleted, and that it certainly was just a mishap that the contributor didn't even notice. So restore the way, send a "watch out" message to the newbie, and call it a day (well, do also improve the tagging of that abandoned railway : some sections are dismantled and some have been converted to various types of highway, etc). But I doubt that Russ would have had such a strong reaction if it was just for that case. I'm sure there were other willfull deletions, and lacks of communication. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk