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

[Peter Wendorff]

Am 25.08.2013 11:11, schrieb 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.
> 
> 
If so, then sorry for that - but is there any documentation about it?
The API description in the wiki does not mention anything like that, so
IMHO it's missing there, isn't it?

regards
Peter