<p>I know that we want to limit the impact of time consuming queries on the api server, but maybe we could offer a workaround, e.g. when the server goes in timeout, the current message: "Sorry, the data for the way with the id 304804695, took too long to retrieve." could be amended by something like this: "do you want to display only the previous version?".<br>
Other options would be to get older data from other services like overpass.</p>

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