[OSM-dev] Database Schema (was Re: [OSM-talk] Oh dear - planet has duplicate id's)

[Tom Hughes]

In message <7679c25f0706230652l2a433a08pc8178460308dc46e at mail.gmail.com>
          "Ray Booysen" <raybooysen at rjb.za.net> wrote:

> On 6/23/07, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
> > On 23 Jun 2007, at 12:02, Tom Hughes wrote:
> >   gpx_files
> >
> >     - What is the visible field for here? There are a few records
> >       with it set to zero but the code ignores it - if it isn't
> >       used then let's remove it.
> >
> > isnt that whats used to delete them?
> 
> If it is used for deletion purposes, rename the field.  Visible is hardly a
> name for showing if the record is deleted or not.

Actually visible is kind of the standard name for "this object is
deleted" in the OSM database.

Tom

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