<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=899988" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/matkoniecz">@matkoniecz</a> : right, that's exactly the situation today. JOSM simply has to way to do better today with what is currently being provided by the OSM API.</p>
<p>This issue is about evolving the OSM API to provide better mechanisms to editing application like JOSM. Once they are in place, JOSM can take advantage of it. That's also the reason why I mentioned that it doesn't make sense to open an issue with JOSM today. We first have to do the work on the OSM API side first.</p>

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