[openstreetmap-website] Related objects in XML (#768)

[Ilya Zverev]

I propose to include a tag `<parent type="..." ref="..." />` to nodes and ways requested directly (i.e. not by map call and not to xml extracts) which list ways and relations that contain given nodes and ways (and relations). Those tags go at the end of object definitions, right before object's closing tag.

This will allow editors to know when an object being edited (split, deleted) is a member of some other object, not present in downloaded area. And consequently this would greatly reduce number of broken relations and failed preconditions.

Since it does not change any existing XML tags, it is unlikely this would break any editors. I'm sure at least JOSM and iD (and my Level0) would support this tag from the start.

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