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

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com
Sun Aug 25 09:42:03 UTC 2013


> From: Peter Wendorff [mailto:wendorff at uni-paderborn.de]
> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 2:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org
> 
> 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?

They upload a new version of the object with the appropriate properties. 
The more relevant call for uploading data is
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/API_v0.6#Diff_upload:_POST_.2Fapi.2F0.6.2Fchangeset
.2F.23id.2Fupload. 
I don't see anything that needs adding to the documentation.




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