Revert a changeset

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Hi all,

I have been mapping rock climbing routes based on the “climbing” wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Climbing

Today I noticed a changeset made by another used deleted all my routes here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/71345063#map=19/45.51996/-73.53545

How can I revert this change set?

Thanks.

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1st ask the mapper in question (changeset comment) what their reason for the deletion was. We need to know if this was just an accident, or if there is a different reason.

2nd once that is clear you can try to revert yourself, you will need to install JOSM and the reverter plugin, and do a partial revert (as the additions seem to be OK). If you don’t want to try, I would suggest piping up here again.

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Or use http://revert.osmz.ru/

Edit: It can’t do a partial revert. But it comes in handy otherwise.

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Hey, I already messaged the editor, but so far no response. I do leave in Montreal and I can confirm there are climbing routes over there. I tried a few myself.

@Trójmiasto thanks, I will use that if I don’t get any answer.

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Changeset discussion comments can be more useful than private messages for a couple of reasons - one is that everything there is public, so everyone has an incentive to be extra descriptive and extra-polite. Also because everything’s public other people can see a mappers’ previous interaction with the community - often that allows a future commenter to give a bit of extra context to future remarks.