<div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; white-space: pre-wrap; align-items: center; "><img height="20" width="20" style="border-radius:50%; margin-right: 4px;" decoding="async" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16009897?s=20&v=4" /><strong>k-yle</strong> left a comment <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/5973#issuecomment-2849262386">(openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#5973)</a></div>
<p dir="auto">for completeness, another option that hasn't been mentioned yet is:</p>
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  <span class="pl-s">"osmChange"</span>: [
    { <span class="pl-s">"type"</span>: <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>create<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>, <span class="pl-s">"elements"</span>: [<span class="pl-ii">a</span>, <span class="pl-ii">b</span>, <span class="pl-ii">c</span>] },
    { <span class="pl-s">"type"</span>: <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>delete<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>, <span class="pl-s">"elements"</span>: [<span class="pl-ii">d</span>, <span class="pl-ii">e</span>] },
    { <span class="pl-s">"type"</span>: <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>modify<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>, <span class="pl-s">"elements"</span>: [<span class="pl-ii">f</span>, <span class="pl-ii">g</span>] },
    { <span class="pl-s">"type"</span>: <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>delete<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>, <span class="pl-s">"elements"</span>: [<span class="pl-ii">h</span>, <span class="pl-ii">i</span>], <span class="pl-s">"ifUnused"</span>: <span class="pl-c1">true</span> },
  ],
  <span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">//</span> extra properties for 'options' or 'changesetTags' or whatever could go here</span>
}</pre></div>
<p dir="auto">this would address all the limitations from the other proposals, <em>and</em> avoids adding properties to the <code class="notranslate">Node</code>/<code class="notranslate">Way</code>/<code class="notranslate">Relation</code> objects^{<a href="#user-content-fn-1-7aad3df583a563dada41d73f41fa23f4" id="user-content-fnref-1-7aad3df583a563dada41d73f41fa23f4" data-footnote-ref="" aria-describedby="footnote-label">1</a>}</p>
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<p dir="auto">in my opinion, we should avoid adding temporary properties to these objects, because this could become messy and could be weird to implement in a type-safe way in some languages <a href="#user-content-fnref-1-7aad3df583a563dada41d73f41fa23f4" data-footnote-backref="" aria-label="Back to reference 1" class="data-footnote-backref">↩</a></p>
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