Simon Poole

> The value "forward" is displayed in lowercase. Previously (without the new selector) it was displayed here as "Forward" – with the initial letter written in capital letters (= display_value)....

The information which object is selected is not stored with the undo information so can't be recreated. As changing this (in any form) would require a state file format change,...

> _"if it actually makes sense overall"_? Why shouldn't it make sense to correct this? Because there are situations in which you wouldn't want to restore the stored selection, for...

Current workaround (for modern Android variants that don't allow access to the Android directories by apps running on the device): connect the device to a Desktop PC, navigate to Android/data/de.blau.android/files/styles...

While it still involves an overpass query, simply using `type:node id:1` in the object search and generating an overpass query from that doesn't seem to be overly complicated. Yes there...

My point was that you don't need to edit the generated overpass query if you just want to retrieve individual object, which is at least a good workaround.

But the boiler plate is all there, just - click on the object search menu item - enter type:node id:1 - click query overpass - click run

While @paulmach might want to accommodate this in any case, the tool in question (osmconvert) is broken, and any standard compliant XML parser should be parsing both variants.