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Mistake in map alignment. I'm sorry, can I revert that?
Posted by overture on 18 August 2018 in English.Well, on my first day as an editor, I made some mistakes.
It’s right there on the wiki, very clearly: Imagery can be wrong. But I didn’t though of that when trying to fix this lot of roads which seemed oddly aligned with Bing imagery. I’m sorry.
I think there should be more advice about that on at least ID’s walkthrough (a link like the above one maybe). I had no idea that the map could be disaligned with the aerial image.
There’s some way to revert a changeset?
Discussion
Comment from kocio on 18 August 2018 at 22:57
Yes:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Change_rollback
You can post bad changesets numbers, so I could do it using JOSM.
Comment from DeBigC on 19 August 2018 at 06:07
I agree, there should be a health warning for the way imagery is rectified, especially because sat images provided by Bing for example have new iterations (without warning too), and fluctuating quality.
Comment from overture on 19 August 2018 at 21:00
Oh, thank you. Please do, I’m not confident with using revert scripts after I read this
on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Revert_scripts#Act_responsibly!
The changeset numbers are:
Comment from kocio on 19 August 2018 at 23:06
The problem is that all of them generate some conflicts, so I’m not sure what could go wrong. I guess the best thing would be if you make manual corrections to avoid breaking things.
Reverting is OK for elements which has not been altered later - it’s produces normal changeset, but with opposite actions. If there were some other actions later, it become complicated.
Comment from overture on 26 August 2018 at 23:09
Sorry for taking so long to answer.
Hm, so I can revert individual elements?
Comment from kocio on 26 August 2018 at 23:11
I’m not sure, I only know changeset reverter. Please ask here for example:
https://help.openstreetmap.org/