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

[Florian Lohoff]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:09:21PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Purpose of "visible" tag?
> 
> 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.

The api map call returns them aswell - all of them set to "true" so
basically when you use the map call they could be suppressed. 

Flo
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