[OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

[Paul Norman]

> From: Peter Wendorff [mailto:wendorff at uni-paderborn.de]
> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 1:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org
> 
> If you revert a deletion the old nodes aren't re-used, but created as 
> new objects. There is no real undeletion in the API, so all revert 
> tools only can revert objects that still exist. Deleted objects are 
> not undeleted, but recreated (see [1] and the explanation for error code
412).

This is incorrect - revert tools can turn a deleted object into a visible
one.
So can any user for that matter - it's not like they have any special
access.

Error 412 is not relevant when reverting in the correct order and there are
no 
conflicts with other edits in the area.