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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/8/25 Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de>

> >> The revert tools just do a delete.
> >
> > I hope not!
> > They roll back to the previous version of an object. I've just had to
> > use that to fix a problem id created with a commit I had pushed. Revert
> > rolled all the nodes back to their correct position.
>
> I fear, your hope is worthless.
> Sure: After the revert the state of the map (without history) is the
> same as before the reverted change, but if you revert a deletion the old
> nodes aren't re-used, but created as new objects.




no, this is not true, the deleted objects ids are indeed reused and the
same object is recreated (but a new version is created, the deletion
remains of course in history), example:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1098346508/history

cheers,
Martin
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