[OSM-dev] Purpose of "visible" tag?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> i see the visible tag being used in examples of the 0.5 api, but i don't see
> any explanation for it. How/when gets something invisible and how should
> an osm editor treat this? Are invisible items to be ignored completely? 

Invisible items are those that have been deleted. You only get them when 
you ask for an object's history and that object has been deleted, OR in 
a future "give me all deleted objects in this bounding box" call.

Bye
Frederik

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