How do I double check my changes?

General talk
1

I was panning thru the map and I accidentaly moved a node of a road. Now I am wondering if I have done that before without knowing and saved the change. How do I retrace the changes that I’ve done to check if I’ve done something stupid like that?

2

You can look at your changesets but thats manual work and pretty hard to do with larger changes. I dont know if there is an app / service to make this easier.

3

in detail:

via your OSM user page http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Victor%20Olvera … (maybe better log in there, but not necessary I think)

you can find your contributions in detail:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Victor%20Olvera/history

4

What you can also do is download the area (if it’s not too big) in JOSM and use the “search” function with an argument like “user:%your_user_name%”. This will highlight all OSM elements where you are the last contributor. You can improve your search by adding more criteria like the type of element, ways or nodes; or elements with a particular tag or not tagged at all, etc. This is very powerful.

5

Stephan’s possibility is the basic, essential option to do it. If it is to hard to see what you have really changed those tools can help:

  • use OSMHV for full changesets (occasionally shows moved nodes where there aren’t moves - the line is blue then. It would be green and red if there is a real move)
  • or mapki’s deep history for single objects.
  • You may also use the OWL history tab (but it is in very beta stage, sometimes lags behind).

You find all those tools over there in the wiki: Quality_assurance#Monitoring_Tools. I recommend to use bookmarklets with keywords for very quick access to those tools from the osm.org/changeset pages.

To continue Pieren’s answer: If you are a (somehow advanced) JOSM user then you can mis-use the reverter plugin to see a previous state and compare it with the current state in another layer.

Well, and despite all that, see the previous questions on “changeset” on our help site.

6

I really wonder how you managed to “move a node of a road” by just “panning thru the map”.